Distilled Spirits

Famous quotes containing the words distilled and/or spirits:

    I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn’t 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)

    the sacred few who could not tame
    Their spirits to the conquerors—
    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)