Absinthe Quotes: Dracula
June 8th, 2009
“Absinthe is the aphrodisiac of the self. The green fairy who lives in the absinthe wants your soul. But you are safe with me.”
Gary Oldman as Dracula in Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Absinthe Quote: Marie Corelli
June 2nd, 2009
“It is a charming fairy! . . . one wave of the opal wand, and sorrow is conveniently guillotined!”
Corelli M: Wormwood-A drama of Paris London, UK, Richard Bentley and Son; 1890.
Absinthe Quotes: Aleister Crowley
May 23rd, 2009
“…sit daily for six hours in the Old Absinthe House, and sip the icy opal; endure till all things change insensibly before your eyes, you changing with them; till you become as gods, knowing good and evil, and that they are not two but one.”
From: Absinthe: The Green Goddess, by Aleister Crowley
Absinthe Quote: Voltaire
May 17th, 2009
“The first month of marriage is the honeymoon, the second is the absinthe-moon.”
François-Marie Arouet, pen name: Voltaire
21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778
Absinthe quotes: Alfred Jarry
May 12th, 2009
“Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so solvent and corrosive that out of all substances, it has been chosen for washing and scourings, and a drop of water, added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddies it.”*
Alfred Jarry
Poet and playwright (1873-1907)
*And so he drank his absinthe straight . . . [...]
Absinthe Quotes: Oscar Wilde
January 27th, 2009
“A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world, what difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset.”
- Oscar Wilde
Absinthe Quote: Hemingway
November 10th, 2008
“Got tight last night on absinthe. Did knife tricks.”
- Ernest Hemingway
Absinthe Quote: Marie Corelli
August 26th, 2008
“Let me be mad, mad with the madness of absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world”
Corelli M: Wormwood-A drama of Paris London, UK, Richard Bentley and Son; 1890.
