Famous quotes containing the word intoxicating:
“A sense of power is the most intoxicating stimulant a mortal can enjoy ...”
—Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)
“You do not really wish to hear more of the Battle of Kadesh. Let me say only that human fat, gorged in considerable quantity, has an intoxicating effect. I became ... drunk.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
“I believe that the miseries consequent on the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors are so great as imperiously to command the attention of all dedicated lives; and that while the abolition of American slavery was numerically first, the abolition of the liquor traffic is not morally second.”
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)