Top 100 Quotes About Liquor
#2. He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand, and tried to tell himself at last he had become a man.
Johnny Cash
#3. Damn what you like, Pieterzoon. But don't damn liquor. It's the stuff of life!
James Clavell
#4. You usually can tell when a writer is going down hill by the size of his liquor bill.
James M. Cain
#5. Around this world will I be enough?
From the liquor stores, to the train stop floors, your filthy room, your drama blues
I am nothing if I'm not with you.
Sara Quin
#6. There Bomar is, wherever he is, spending a fortune every day on liquor and beautiful women and expensive playthings, when he could find peace of mind right here with us, for a mere twenty cents.
Bomar
Kurt Vonnegut
#7. In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#8. What I had come to love about book club (besides the fabulous desserts and free liquor) was how in hearing so many opinions about the same book, your own opinion expanded, as if you'd read the book several times instead of just once.
Lorna Landvik
#9. That's what was wrong with drinking too much. You became immune to drunken delights. There was no solace in liquor. Before you got happy, you collapsed.
Richard Matheson
#10. The staunch, old soakers, on the other hand men who, if put on tap, would have yielded a red alcoholic liquor, by way of blood usually confined themselves to plain brandy-and-water, gin, or West India rum; and,
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#11. Such poor liquor do make a man's throat feel very melancholy
and is a disgrace to the name of stimmilent.
Thomas Hardy
#12. The loneliness in him was so keen that he was filled with terror. Usually he had a pint of bootleg white lightning. He drank the raw liquor and by daylight he was warm and relaxed.
Carson McCullers
#13. Liquor and loss were a desperate combination but particularly for my family, where the precipice between darkness and lightness was mired in the uncertainty of which side held salvation.
Angela Amman
#15. My grandmother always said if you add sugar to booze then it's medicine not liquor.
Simon Clark
#16. The second issue, which was a big one, her hands shook like she had DTs. I was tempted to go to the liquor store and get her a bottle of Jack to calm her down. The rest of her body was completely still except at the wrists. Strangest thing I'd ever seen.
Vibrators for hands.
Ashlan Thomas
#18. What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by a government determined to suppress political opposition under the guise of sedition.
Learned Hand
#19. I take a swig from Milo's flask and hand it back to him. He screws the top back on. He inherited the flash from his grandfather and stole the liquor from his mother. The circle of life.
Courtney Summers
#20. There isn't a nightclub in the world that you can sit in for a long time unless you can at least buy some liquor and get drunk. Or unless you're with some girl that really knocks you out.
J.D. Salinger
#21. Life, as the signs in the liquor stores say, is too short to drink bad wine. And summer is too short to read bad books.
David Frum
#22. Your fey cousin here has the miraculous ability to hold his liquor
and mine, and yours, and the king's, and half the country's, I expect.
Alethea Kontis
#23. I pawned the remote to my misery,
trading it in for liquor that was cheap;
screwdrivers for my vitamin c,
and a little bloodstream to my IV,
helping to soothe my lunacy
Phil Volatile
#24. I mean, what is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor?
John Waters
#25. Be advised; Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself: we may outrun, By violent swiftness, that which we run at, And lose by over-running. Know you not, The fire that mounts the liquor til run o'er, In seeming to augment it wastes it?
William Shakespeare
#26. Standing at this liquor store, whiskey coming through my pores, feeling like I run this whole block
Bruno Mars
#27. I prefer liquor store robbers with hungry kids to companies that locate offshore to avoid U.S. taxes.
Warren Buffett
#28. She marched into the street, found a liquor store and bought a bottle; and the weight of the bottle in her straw handbag somehow made everything real; as the purchase of a railroad ticket proves the imminence of a journey.
James Baldwin
#30. Physically, Echo Spring is nothing more than a nickname for a liquor cabinet, drawn from the brand of bourbon it contains.
Olivia Laing
#31. When the character is lacking in purity, when sin has become a part of the character, it has a bewitching power that is equal to the intoxicating glass of liquor.
Ellen G. White
#32. I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
Carl Sandburg
#33. Liquor - you can make it illegal but you can't make it unpopular.
Arthur Baer
#34. Drunk, if you like; so much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts; and Caderousse began to sing the two last lines of a song very popular at the time, -
Alexandre Dumas
#35. Liquor wasn't forbidden in the Order, but it was frowned upon by the more Faithful masters. Some said anything that dulled the senses was a barrier to the Faith, the less a man remembered of his life the less he had to take with him to the Beyond.
Anthony Ryan
#36. A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people. The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.
Zora Neale Hurston
#37. Ever heard the phrase, 'candy is dandy but liquor is quicker?'"
Great she wanted to get me drunk.
"Ah ... ever heard of underage!"
"Where there's a will there's a way," she said, matter-of-factly.
"That's your great plan?
Jessica Shirvington
#38. I don't know what I expected from my first meeting with Peeta after the announcement. A few hugs and kisses. A little comfort maybe. Not this. I turn to Haymitch. Don't worry, I'll get you more liquor.
Suzanne Collins
#39. Through the windshield I
saw the mark of these
ghettos - the abundance of
beauty shops, churches,
liquor stores, and
crumbling housing - and I
felt the old fear. Through
the windshield I saw the
rain coming down in
sheets.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#41. Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.
Frank Langella
#42. Every gathering has its moment. As an adult, I distract myself by trying to identify it, dreading the inevitable downswing that is sure to follow. The guests will repeat themselves one too many times, or you'll run out of dope or liquor and realize that it was all you ever had in common.
David Sedaris
#43. There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.
Graham Greene
#44. Marijuana is not much more difficult to obtain than beer. The reason for this is that a liquor store selling beer to a minor stands to lose its liquor license. Marijuana salesmen don't have expensive overheads, and so are not easily punished.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#45. Hunger was constitutional with him,
women, cigarettes, liquor, need need need
until he went to pieces.
The pieces sat up & wrote. They did not heed
their piecedom but kept very quietly on
among the chaos.
John Berryman
#46. A certain amount of looting, particularly of liquor stores was reported.
George R. Stewart
#47. But really, what else are you going to talk about in line at the liquor store? Childhood trauma seems like the natural choice, since it's the reason why most of us are in line there to begin with.
Jenny Lawson
#48. Apathetic in my adolescence,
my heart is fluorescent. It flickers
like liquor store lights in the ghetto.
Kris Kidd
#49. the liquor aiding the shorthand of my loneliness. It was strange that I could feel differently so easily, that there was a sure way to soften the crud of my own sadness.
Emma Cline
#50. Loony hillbillies destabilized by gross quantities of impure corn liquor and generations of profoundly unbiblical sex;
Bill Bryson
#51. I couldn't stop thinking about blue eyes and the way he smelled, his scent was a mix of liquor, winter fresh and Nautical sport.
Glenna Maynard
#52. Never underestimate that a small group of people can hold up a liquor license. Sometimes, it's the only thing that can.
Margaret Mead
#53. dessert place that was open until one a.m. and served liquor along with chocolate thingies draped in whatever topped with blah-blah-blah on a bed of poached uh-huh, yeah.
J.R. Ward
#54. Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after the liquor is gone is the host.
Fred Allen
#55. And drinking neat liquor from the bottle, with all my long hair and my shirt undone and my beads, not so much the lizard king, more a gecko duchess, I fitted in nicely with their idea of what a creative person should be.
Russell Brand
#56. No, thank you. I prefer my liquor cold.'
'Right. Or in a pipe, I suppose.'
Phin's brow lifted. 'What a clumsy way to drink liquor. Are you sure you're not concussed?
Meredith Duran
#57. Blue passed his tongue over his lips, tasting strong liquor, and beneath that something earthy, a trace of himself that had lingered in Ace's mouth-- a hint of graveyard dirt.
A.M. Daily
#58. Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.
Ernest Hemingway,
#59. When a man has been intemperate so long that shame no longer paints a blush upon his cheek, his liquor generally does it instead.
George D. Prentice
#60. Love is like liquor, the drunker and more impotent you are, the stronger and smarter you think yourself and the surer you are of your rights.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#61. The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.
Rush Limbaugh
#62. He was out of his mind," said Atticus. "Don't like to contradict you, Mr. Finch - wasn't crazy - mean as hell. Low-down skunk with enough liquor in him to make him brave enough to kill children. He'd never have met you face to face.
Harper Lee
#63. Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now.
Drew Carey
#64. After the war, Prohibition was passed, and with liquor no longer legally available the nation plunged headlong into the Great Depression.
Dave Barry
#65. Those interested in celestial navigation are advised to first obtain a rudimentary knowledge of integral calculus, phlebotomy, astral physics and related subjects. The use of liquor is strictly forbidden on interplanetary flights.
Henry Miller
#66. Prohibition may be the greatest gift any government ever gave its citizens. A barrel of beer cost $4 to make and sold for $55. A case of spiritous liquor cost $20 to produce and earned $90
and all this without taxes.
Bill Bryson
#67. Avoid alcohol as you would a loathsome disease. Beer will do to you what hard liquor will do. Each contains alcohol in varying amounts.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#68. Ever since I was an itty bitty kitty, been drinking liquor out of Mama's titty.
Tupac Shakur
#69. Was this what it felt like to do something unselfish? The sensation was weird. Uncomfortable, yet ... not awful. Like liquor that tasted like shit but went down smooth.
Larissa Ione
#70. I've never argued against any technology being used when you have an imminent threat, an active crime going on. If someone comes out of a liquor store with a weapon and fifty dollars in cash, I don't care if a drone kills him or a policeman kills him.
Rand Paul
#71. The poem you sent me was as fiery and virile as anything you've ever written - or anybody else, for that matter. Especially the second part went to my brain like the flaming liquor of insanity. No one else besides Jack London has the power to move me just that way.
Robert E. Howard
#72. I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club.
David Dinkins
#73. The trick is to smoke a cigarette to calm your nerves and then take a big swig of strong liquor to tone your muscles.
Lev Yashin
#74. Marijuana prohibition is just the stupidest law possible ... Jus t legalize it and tax it like we do liquor.
Morgan Freeman
#75. (When Alabama seceded from the Union on January 11, 1861, Winston County seceded from Alabama, and every child in Maycomb County knew it.) North Alabama was full of Liquor Interests, Big Mules, steel companies, Republicans, professors, and other persons of no background.
Harper Lee
#76. The joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman. Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy
Diana Gabaldon
#77. To keep me warm. Liquor didn't work that way. It opened the capillaries, flushed the skin with what seemed like a rush of warmth, but in the end it only hastened the loss of body heat.
Kit Rocha
#78. Employed as I had been employing it, liquor is a fixative of old patterns ...
Margaret Halsey
#79. Usually it's like this: I sit down and drink with the idea of clarifying just where I am going with my life, and then, after a while, I am unable even to stand on my feet
Plamen Chetelyazov
#80. Here, drink your liqueur," Henry said, tossing back her drink. "I carry it with me everywhere because it's the only kind of drink that Leo doesn't like, so there's a chance I'll still have some tomorrow.
Eloisa James
#81. Cheap liquor is a magic potion that can turn you into a puppet cowboy before it kills you.
Patton Oswalt
#82. When I sell liquor, it's bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it's hospitality.
Al Capone
#83. This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex.
Poppy Z. Brite
#84. I use the term bar-room to represent every means for the sale and traffic in liquor, and I earnestly appeal to the people to put an end to the traffic, no matter under what name or guise it may be carried on.
Thomas Jordan Jarvis
#85. What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.
Mark Twain
#86. I get up at 7:30. I grab a canvas bag and go out. I say hello to the people in the supermarket and liquor store. I buy the 'New York Times.' I go to the beach and think about characters and plot.
Lawrence Sanders
#87. I laughed and it almost felt good. "Is that a dig at my liquor cabinet?"
Cam smiled. "That wasn't liquor, it was swill. And that wasn't a cabinet, it was a drawer.
Rachel Vincent
#88. I do not know, but they are very rough. I suppose they would do almost anything for money. They smell strongly of liquor." Slowly
Arthur M. Winfield
#89. The Men of Faith will play the cup-bearers at this lifelong bacchanal, filling and ever filling again with the warm liquor that the Intelligences, in sad and sober privacy behind the scenes, will brew for the intoxication of their subjects.
Aldous Huxley
#90. I better understood the little lies that liquor told, lifting spirits and drowning sorrows while withholding the whole truth--that, in the end, it is the spirit in peril of drowning. Sorrows have gills.
Charles M. Blow
#92. I never was a crazy liquor drinker, and I don't like beer that much - though I keep the brews at home because my homies love beer.
Danny Brown
#93. Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive, like seawater, scented with the rich stench of ordure and corruption, and carrying with it hard, abrasive shards of grief.
Simon Mawer
#94. Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.
Ogden Nash
#95. It was always so hot, and everyone was so polite, and everything was all surface but underneath it was like a bomb waiting to go off. I always felt that way about the South, that beneath the smiles and southern hospitality and politeness were a lot of guns and liquor and secrets.
James McBride
#96. For some, bottles of liquor gleam like the towers of Eldorado.
Mason Cooley
#97. There are only two real ways to get ahead today - sell liquor or drink it.
W.C. Fields
#98. And the blunts and liquor killing our lungs and liver. The asthmatic drug-addict, I function with it
Black Thought
#99. The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.
Wilkie Collins
#100. it was said to be 'hardly in the power of liquor to affect Dr Webster's understanding or his limbs'. Yet no one was more sober when it came to calculations of life expectancy.
Niall Ferguson
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