Famous quotes containing the word distilled:
“I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasnt pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think and novelists to see what I could get away with. And, in the end, I distilled everything down to one wonderfully simple principle: win or die.”
—Christopher Hampton (b. 1946)
“My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.”
—John Cheever (19121982)
“Its flowers distilled honey is so sweet
It makes the butterflies intemperate.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
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