Draught Quotes

• Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.

  John Dryden

  Wise, Fitness, Work

  Epistle 'To my honoured kinsman John Driden' l. 92

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• More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

  George Eliot

  Wisdom, Simple, Compassion

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1272, Wordsworth Editions

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• God never made his work for man to mend.

  John Dryden

  Fitness, Work, Exercise

  Epistle 'To my honoured kinsman John Driden' l. 92

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• I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.

  John Burroughs

  Work, Hands, Secret

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• Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints.

  William Osler

  Hard Work, Dust, Aggravation

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.301, Duke University Press

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• The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, the fourth for madness.

  Walter Raleigh

  Drinking, Beer, Alcohol

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: Miscellaneous works”, p.568

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• For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever completing anything. This whole book is but a draught—nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!

  Herman Melville

  Book, Cash, May

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.159, Velvet Element Books

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• Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Judgement, Feelings, Bitter

  Charlotte Bronte (2017). “Jane Eyre”, p.188, Pan Macmillan

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• One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Hate, Hatred, Joy

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• He pushed himself to his feet. “Don’t lie, Sansa. I am malformed, scarred, and small, but…” she could see him groping “…abed, when the candles are blown out, I am made no worse than other men. In the dark, I am the Knight of Flowers.” He took a draught of wine. “I am generous. Loyal to those who are loyal to me. I’ve proven I’m no craven. And I am cleverer than most, surely wits count for something. I can even be kind. Kindness is not a habit with us Lannisters, I fear, but I know I have some somewhere. I could be… I could be good to you.

  George R. R. Martin

  Kindness, Lying, Flower

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.1933, Bantam

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• What if a man save my life with a draught that was prepared to poison me? The providence of the issue does not at all discharge the obliquity of the intent. And the same reason holds good even in religion itself. It is not the incense, or the offering that is acceptable to God, but the purity and devotion of the worshipper.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Offering, Issues

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• The air is like a draught of wine.
  The undertaker cleans his sign,
  The Hull express goes off the line,
  When it's raspberry time in Runcorn.

  Noel Coward

  Wine, Air, Hull

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• Compliments of congratulation are always kindly taken, and cost nothing but pen, ink and paper. I consider them as draughts upon good breeding, where the exchange is always greatly in favor of the drawer.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Congratulations, Taken, Ink And Paper

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• There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Character, Men, Skeletons

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• Ingrateful man with liquorish draughts, and morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind that from it all consideration slips.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Grease, Mind

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1858). “Titus Andronicus. Romeo and Juliet. Timon of Athens. Julius Caesar. Macbeth. Hamlet. King Lear”, p.268

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• There is a world of science necessary in choosing books. I have known some people in great sorrow fly to a novel, or the last light book in fashion. One might as well take a rose-draught for the plague! Light reading does not do when the heart is really heavy. I am told that Goethe, when he lost his son, took to study a science that was new to him. Ah! Goethe was a physician who knew what he was about.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Fashion, Book, Reading

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• It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies- it seeped in with every draught in the house; people brought it home on their shoes, they breathed it in off their newspapers. There was no way to control it.

  Zadie Smith

  Home, Air, Shoes

  "On Beauty". Book by Zadie Smith, 2005.

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• Loud wind, strong wind, sweeping o'er the mountains,
  Fresh wind, free wind, blowing from the sea,
  Pour forth thy vials like streams from airy mountains,
  Draughts of life to me.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Strong, Wind Blowing, Sea

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• Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

  Leon Panetta

  Sea, Relief, Rising

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• I inhale great draught of space...the east and west are mine...and the north and south are mine...I am grandeur than I thought...I did not know i held so much goodness.

  Walt Whitman

  Space, East, West

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of The Open Road”

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• If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare,
  One cordial in this melancholy vale,
  'T is when a youthful, loving, modest pair
  In other's arms breathe out the tender tale

  Robert Burns

  Heaven, Arms, Pairs

  Robert Burns, Robert Chambers (1838). “The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. To which are Now Added, Notes Illustrating Historical, Personal, and Local Allusions. [The Editor's Preface Signed: R. C., I.e. Robert Chambers.]”, p.42

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• Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool? Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Olivia, Fool

  William Shakespeare (2010). “Twelfth Night”, p.32, Palgrave Macmillan

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• God is dethroned; and although the incognizant masses are tardy in realizing the event, they feel the icy draught caused by that vacancy. Man enters upon a spiritual ice age; the established churches can no longer provide more than Eskimo huts where their shivering flock huddles together.

  Arthur Koestler

  Spiritual, Men, Ice

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• Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.

  John Gay

  Love, Hate, Alcohol

  John Gay (2013). “The Beggar's Opera and Polly”, p.55, OUP Oxford

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• Anticipation is a bad sleeping draught.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Sleep, Expectations, Anticipation

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.149

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