I never think of policemen's wives; their beauty maddens me like wine.

He knew that Hop-Frog was not fond of wine; for it excited the poor cripple almost to madness; and madness is no comfortable feeling.

Beauty is worse than wine; it intoxicates both the holder and the beholder

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes

Judgment of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark

The mad indulge in speaking to their own beautiful abstract