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Draught Quotes

Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.

Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.

Virginia Woolf
Sleep, Draught, Fatigue
Virginia Woolf, Kate Flint (1999). “Jacob's Room”, p.90, Oxford University Press, USA

What Americans call cross-ventilation, the English call draughts.

Hermione Gingold
England, Crosses, Draught

There is no composing draught like the draught through the tube of a pipe.

Frederick Marryat
Smoking, Draught, Pipe
Frederick Marryat (1873). “Jacob Faithful”, p.2

I took one Draught of Life - I'll tell you what I paid - Precisely an existence - The market price, they said.

Emily Dickinson
Life, Said, Draught
Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.183, Harvard University Press

Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.

Ovid
Grief, Flight, Draught

I believe that nothing completely satisfies an imaginative writer but copious and continuous draughts of unmitigated praise, always provided it is accompanied by a large and increasing sale of his works.

Frederick Locker-Lampson
Believe, Praise, Draught
Frederick Locker-Lampson (1895). “My Confidences: An Autobiographical Sketch Addressed to My Descendants”

When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.

Agnes Repplier
Kindness, Milk, Draught
Agnes Repplier (1932). “To Think of Tea!”

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