Best Absinthe Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“That's the wormwood," Robert Jordan told him. "In this, the real absinthe, there is wormwood. It's supposed to rot your brain out but I don't believe it. It only changes the ideas. You should pour water into it very slowly, a few drops at a time. But I poured it into the water.”

Wormwood Absinthe Louche

Book:For Whom the Bell Tolls

Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls

“It is the return of a dog to his vomit.”

Shame Drinking Alcohol Relapse Absinthe

Book:Confessions

Source: Confessions

“It was like washing down a bucket of peyote with a vatful of absinthe.”

News Absinthe Peyote Spider Jerusalem

Book:Transmetropolitan, Vol. 2: Lust for Life

Source: Transmetropolitan, Vol. 2: Lust for Life

“I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.”

Knows Trying Body Europe Drinking Bottles Pills Absinthe

Author:Jack Osbourne

“Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing and scouring, and a drop of water added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddles it.”

Has Beens Water Clear Food Terrible Cooking Chosen Substance Poison Culinary Alcoholics Washing Liquid Drop Of Water Muddle Absinthe

Author:Alfred Jarry

“Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.”

Heart Grows Drinking Wit Absinthe

Author:Ethel Mumford

“What is it in absinthe that makes it a separate cult? The effects of its abuse are totally distinct from those of other stimulants. Even in ruin and in degradation it remains a thing apart: its victims wear a ghastly aureole all their own, and in their peculiar hell yet gloat with a sinister perversion of pride that they are not as other men.”

Men Hell Effects Pride Abuse Victim Remains Ruins Peculiar Cult Degradation Sinister Perversion Ghastly Stimulants Absinthe

Book:Absinthe: The Green Goddess

Source: Absinthe: The Green Goddess

“I peed in my wife's boot once. On honeymoon, in Madrid, we were drinking absinthe and somehow made it back to our hotel. I don't remember a second of this, but my wife woke up to this noise. Two of her boots were in the corner, one had fallen down and the other was standing up and I was peeing into it! It was a hole, and it looked like a toilet. She said: "Rob, wake up, you're peeing into my shoe!"”

Made Said Two Remember Wife Standing Wake Up Down And Drinking Shoes Corners My Wife Holes Noise Made It Fallen Hotel Boots Toilets Honeymoon Madrid Absinthe

Author:Rob Corddry

“Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the "good life", whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.”

Source: Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

“After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.”

World Firsts Wish Drink Drinking Glasses Horrible Drinking Alcohol Great Drinking Horrible Things Absinthe

Book:Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

“Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.”

Lasts Night Tricks Knives Last Night Absinthe

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well”

Wells Style Suits Never Quit Absinthe

Author:Oscar Wilde

“Right now, Im very healthy. I have no vices left. Except sugary breakfast cereal. And absinthe, of course.”

Courses Left Healthy Right Now Vices Breakfast Cereal Breakfast Cereal Absinthe

Author:Johnny Galecki

“Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable!”

World Mean Let Me Madness Mad Amour Luxurious Absinthe L Amour

Author:Marie Corelli

“A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?”

World Differences Glasses Sunset Absinthe

Author:Oscar Wilde

“I sit at my door, smoking a cigarette and sipping my absinthe, and I enjoy every day without a care in the world”

World Care Enjoy Doors Smoking Cigarette Sipping Absinthe

Author:Paul Gauguin

“Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife underhand into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all the furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it.”

Lasts Night Hell Claims Tricks Shooting Piano Knives Furniture Last Night Great Success Absinthe

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“I understand that absinthe makes the tart grow fonder.”

Grows Tarts Absinthe

Book:The Letters of Ernest Dowson

Source: The Letters of Ernest Dowson