drug quotes

Everything is a dangerous drug to me except reality, which is unendurable.

- Cyril Vernon Connolly
  The Unquiet Grave, pt.1.

I go to the theatre to be entertained. I don't want to see plays about rape, sodomyand drug addictionI can get all that at home.

- Peter Cook
Comedy routine.  Also used as a cartoon caption in the Observer, 8  Jul1962.

Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car.You would call that not a disease but an error of judgement.

- Philip K(indred) Dick
  A Scanner Darkly, author's note.

Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.

- George Farquhar
  Love and a Bottle, act 3, sc.2.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
  Speech,14 Feb, collected in  A Book of  Words.

Drabs from the alleyways and drug fiends pale Minds still passion-ridden, soul-power frail: Vermin-eaten saints with moldy breath, Unwashed legions with the ways of Death (Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?)

- (Nicholas) Vachel Lindsay
  General Booth Enters Into Heaven,'General Booth Enters Into Heaven'.