Top 100 Quotes About Whiskey
#1. It isn't the whiskey they choose, it's the image.
David Ogilvy
#2. I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it.
Mark Twain
#3. I contented myself with whiskey, for medicinal purposes. It helped numb my various aches and pains. Not that the alcohol actually reduced the pain, it just gave the pain a life of its own, apart from mine.
Haruki Murakami
#4. They is four things that can destroy the earth, he said. Women, whiskey, money, and niggers.
Cormac McCarthy
#5. No man who drank or smoked could ever come nearer to me than the telephone. I'd say, I won't let you - you nicotine-soaked, beer-besmeared, whiskey-greased, red-eyed devil - talk to me face to face ...
Carrie Nation
#6. You can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey.
Bill Murray
#7. She lives on the fumes of whiskey and the iron in the blood of her prey.
Hilary Mantel
#8. Like my old mentor would always say, Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice and I'll be dead.' Okay, she wasn't a good poet, but that lady could handle her whiskey.
John Zakour
#9. i am not a hotel room. i am home
i am not the whiskey you want
i am the water you need
don't come here with expectations
and try to make a vacation out of me
Rupi Kaur
#10. Whiskey to himself "God,
please let this kid be legal, just to make that whole wood thing less disgusting
Amy Lane
#11. Nyx had finished off a fifth of vodka for breakfast, since she'd sworn off whiskey.
Kameron Hurley
#13. Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.
Mark Twain
#14. Don't open the box until I arrive. Wear something unbearably sexy that you think will drive me crazy. Because it will. And have a drink ready for me when I walk in the door. Whiskey will do.
Lauren Blakely
#15. The captain of HMS Terror often thought that he knew nothing about the future - other than that his ship and Erebus would never again steam or sail - but then he reminded himself of one certainty: when his store of whiskey was gone, Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier was going to blow his brains out.
Dan Simmons
#17. Rage and hurt coalesce into a stone in my chest and as I take another gulp of my father's prized whiskey, I hear myself say, "Tell me about your plan.
Melissa Simmons
#18. - Shush sweet baby, I said, so tired, and mixed her gripe water with whiskey and dill weed, but it did no good, so I seen now why lullabies was all about cradles falling from trees, oh dear, when the wind blows, down will come baby, whoops too bad, but at least it's quiet.
Kate Manning
#19. Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
W.C. Fields
#20. It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away.
Sherman Alexie
#21. whiskey. The chiefs were "exceedingly fond of it, they took up an empty bottle, Smelted it, and made maney Simple jestures and Soon began to be troublesom." Clark
Stephen E. Ambrose
#22. This is why it is good to remember: if you want to get high, don't drink whiskey; read Shakespeare, Tennyson, Keats, Neruda, Hopkins, Millay, Whitman, aloud and let your body sing.
Natalie Goldberg
#23. Will you stop drinking whiskey? Let me plead with you to do so. And if the sisters would not think it oppressive, I would ask them to not drink quite so much strong tea.
Brigham Young
#24. Bourbon is a type of corn whiskey, requiring that it be made with more than 51% corn.
Benjamin Vicks
#25. Rain makes corn, corn makes whiskey.
Luke Bryan
#26. Y'all drinking whiskey is probably a gregarious act. When you're not an alcoholic it's pretty fun to drink whiskey. But when you are it's a very solo ritual. It's not gregarious at all. But vice has always informed country music and all music.
Ketch Secor
#27. Something else is hurting you -
that's why you need pot
or whiskey, or screaming music
turned so fucking loud
you can't think
Charles Bukowski
#28. Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast.
Compton Mackenzie
#29. Don't go taking that gospel stuff seriously. It's nice to clean you out now and then, but it ain't for real. It's like bad whiskey. Run through you fast and leave you with pain.
Dorothy Allison
#30. I don't suppose I could have a whiskey instead of the wine, could I?"
"Whiskey?"
"Yes"
"I didn't know you drank whiskey."
"And I didn't know you were a psychopath. Just bring me a whiskey
B.A. Paris
#31. As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.
Molly Ivins
#32. It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did not long remain one.
Mark Twain
#33. Economy, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.
Ambrose Bierce
#34. Here's to the future, he said and lifted the glass to his mouth. There was a lump of regret stuck in his throat as he spoke the words, but he washed it down with the whiskey.
Bette Lee Crosby
#35. I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.
Robert E.Lee
#36. I got a heart like a half bottle of no-label whiskey.
Nothing to brag on,
but enough for you, and all your friends, too.
Catherynne M Valente
#37. The farmers of western Pennsylvania laid the foundation of the American whiskey industry.
Kate Hopkins
#38. To be or not to be, fucked up on whiskey, that is the question.
Robert Black
#39. I saw the black seam of your stocking
Running down the side of the mountain like a creek
I put the whiskey down and listened
from "Blue Yodel of the Desperado
Frank Stanford
#40. Awesome! I'd just bullied Jesus into doing a shot with me. Nobody would ever believe it, but I didn't care. We ordered the insanely expensive stuff, seventy-five dollars for a 1.75-ounce pour of premium Irish whiskey, because if you're doing a shot with Jesus, you don't buy him scotch.
Kevin Hearne
#41. The echo of the first shot, like the first sip of whiskey, burning ...
Richard K. Morgan
#42. Stories, like whiskey, must be allowed to mature in the cask.
Sean O Faolain
#43. Good work last night, whiskey, too bad you can't make sleep as restful as you make it deep.
Imogen Binnie
#45. It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics dope and all of that stuff. It is a thousand times better than whiskey. It is an assistant and a friend.
Louis Armstrong
#46. Everything in moderation except whiskey, and sometimes too much whiskey is just enough.
Mark Twain
#48. Son, if you can't take their money, drink their whiskey, screw their women, and then vote against 'em, you don't deserve to be here.
Sam Rayburn
#49. I am further back, surrounded on all sides by wailing men, their faces shiny with tears. Uncle Al promised three dollars and a bottle of Canadian whiskey to the man who puts on the best show. You've never seen such grief
even the dogs were howling.
Sara Gruen
#50. Raise up your glasses against evil forces; Whiskey for my men, beer for my horses.
Toby Keith
#51. That story is proof of the theorem that then as today in Chicago, the mysterious equation of whiskey plus music equals what can only be called happiness.
Sarah Vowell
#52. I sit here in this chair, I pour myself some whiskey, and watch my troubles vanish into the air.
Randy Newman
#53. You'll be my glass of wine
I'll be your shot of whiskey
Blake Shelton
#54. Considering that Americans are now moving away from whiskey, moving away from brown spirits in general, I believe that they will all join Russians who drink vodka straight. They will sip it like cognac.
Roustam Tariko
#55. Whiskey makes the heart beat faster
but it sure doesn't help the
mind and isn't it funny how you can ache just
from the deadly drone of
existence?
Charles Bukowski
#56. The problem with taxation is that authors can't write off whiskey as a business expense.
Bryan Way
#57. I learned you can't drink whiskey and play golf.
John Daly
#58. Now tell me, Sawyer O'Donnell, are you more Irish or Hispanic?"
"Half and half. Love the Mexican food but also love a good Irish whiskey on occasion. They're both really good lovers, you know. Hot-blooded and stand by their women.
Carolyn Brown
#59. Your bird drinks whiskey and eats tobacco?"
The old man frowned."Just be lad he doesn't like eatin' scrawny boys that don't know their way 'round the Otherworld.
Kami Garcia
#60. Good friends, good whiskey, and good lovin', I want to thank you Lord.
Hank Williams Jr.
#61. It took too long for me to realize I'd dropped that beautiful bottle of whiskey. Too long to realize I'd broken it. By the time I figured it out, too long turned to too late, and I remembered all-too-well the other way Whiskey can burn.
Kandi Steiner
#63. For a southern belle, my grandmother was remarkably modern. She threw my grandfather out, for one thing - some kind of argument about bourbon whiskey - shortly after the birth of their third child, and then went back to school to get herself a teaching certificate.
Preston Sturges
#64. Every day I ran to that book like it was a bottle of whiskey and crawled inside because it was a world that I had at least some control over, and slowly, in time, it began to take shape.
Craig Ferguson
#65. A woman is like whiskey. She evaporates a little over time, distilled by disappointments and grief. One can never predict if the angels will take the best of her or the worst. Only time will tell is the woman that remains will be bitter, dispirited or aged to perfection..
Paula Wall
#66. I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other.
Ava Gardner
#67. Some of you fellers are getting 'Whiskey Slick.'
Casey Stengel
#68. I stumbled into the living room, and Thomas handed me a bottle of whiskey. They all had some in a glass
"You told them?" I asked Trenton, my voice broken.
Trenton nodded.
I collapsed to my knees, and my brothers surrounded me, placing their hands on my head and shoulders for support.
Jamie McGuire
#69. I shot it back and closed my eyes, considering a trip to the liquor store. But there wasn't enough whiskey in the universe to help me make my decision.
Jamie McGuire
#70. God created whiskey to keep the Irish from taking over the world.
Kinky Friedman
#71. He poured himself a glass of whiskey. And another. And another. Not enough to get stinking drunk, just enough to make him overly contemplative.
Julia Quinn
#72. The light music of whiskey falling into a glass - an agreeable interlude.
James Joyce
#73. It's like if Ryan Gosling showed up at your door dressed like Noah from The Notebook, bearing flowers and whiskey. You'd be stupid not to take that bike for a ride.
Staci Hart
#74. They're a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It's said that without whiskey to soak and soften the world, they'd kill themselves. (Irish)
John Steinbeck
#75. She thinks of James Grierson. His Kisses tasted like whiskey, and they landed right and true.
Alden Bell
#76. The colonel had a single vice - whiskey - and he looked forward to the anesthetic burn of the Kentucky bourbon with sublime anticipation.
Greg Iles
#77. The radio aches a little tune that tells the story of what the night is thinking. it's thinking of love.
it's thinking of stabbing us to death and leaving our bodies in a dumpster.
that's a nice touch, stains in the night, whiskey and kisses for everyone.
Richard Siken
#78. It ain't that you get religion. Religion gets you and then milks you dry. Won't let you drink a little whiskey. Won't let you make no fat-assed girls grin and giggle. Won't let you do a damn thing except work for what you'll get in the hearafter. I live in the here and now.
Dorothy Allison
#79. Boy, a drive-through liquor store. God bless America! A place where you can drive through and buy whiskey, beer ... just the thing for that drunk driver who's constantly on the go. Cant stop now! I've got places to go, people to hit!
Drew Carey
#80. The thing I like about Irish whiskey is that the more you drink the smoother it goes down. Of course that's probably true of antifreeze as well, but illusion is nearly all we have.
Robert B. Parker
#81. [The Writer silently passes her a pint bottle of whiskey.] Thank you, Mr.
?
WRITER: Chekhov! Anton Pavlovitch Chekhov!
MRS HARDWICKE-MOORE [smiling with the remnants of coquetry]: Thank you, Mr.
Chekhov.
Tennessee Williams
#82. Pardon me, is this some kind of social experiment? You want me to get a hundred and forty-four Samoans and cram them into your cabin with a case of whiskey?
Kevin Hearne
#83. When a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains.
Harper Lee
#84. So how do you feel about it?" "I'm not upset, but my mom was crying and it's the first time I've ever seen her cry. Dad always wanted whiskey poured on his grave, so my brother said, 'I just hope he doesn't mind me filtering it through my bladder first.'" Mystery
Neil Strauss
#85. Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.
Mary Baker Eddy
#86. My life was once whiskey, tears and cigarettes ... now it's snot, tears and a color of poop. Bliss. I do miss the whiskey, though.
Pink
#87. I think booze is a good ritual. I think knocking back a shot of whiskey does calm the nerves and helps a lot.
Rose Leslie
#88. GIVE ME A WHISKEY...GINGER ALE ON THE SIDE...AND DONT BE STINGY BABY
Garbo
#89. And there's nothing wrong with spinsters, anyway. They have nice cats and little bowls full of candy. Mrs. Bailey and Mrs. Newitz are the kindest ladies you'll ever meet, and they have nips of whiskey in their tea like cowboys.
Catherynne M Valente
#91. Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
Harper Lee
#92. He had hit with his closed fist and knocked her sprawling. It took talent to make Wyatt lose his temper, but Jessie knew just how to do it, and did it mainly just to have something happening. Pouring whiskey from bottle to glass was boring work.
Larry McMurtry
#93. Trash can!
Pritkin cursed and grabbed one, just about the time everything I'd eaten that night paid a repeat visit. Whiskey, pizza, milk shake, beer-and a lone, half-dissolved gummy bear, which was a surprise, since I couldn't actually recall having eaten any. Fun times.
Karen Chance
#94. In the eyelid-blue betweenness the wordy sounds of the whiskey-drinkers spilled distantly.
Truman Capote
#95. Whiskey and beer are all right in their place, but their place is in hell.
Billy Sunday
#96. A wet cigarette butt clung to my cheek like a mashed cockroach. I could smell whiskey and beer in my clothes and Gable's blood on my knuckles and I swore I could taste whiskey surging out of my stomach into my throat, like an old friend who has come back in a time of need.
James Lee Burke
#97. There ain't no justice, laws of nature rule this land. Better hide your horses, bury your whiskey.
Toby Keith
#98. but when a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains. I don't know of any landowner around here who begrudges those children any game their father can hit.
Harper Lee
#99. God invented whiskey so the Irish wouldn't rule the world.
Jim Bishop
#100. A burn, like the first taste of whiskey, then pure, unabashed ecstasy
Lauren Blakely
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