Top 100 Quotes About Whiskey
#1. Whiskey doesn't mix well with toothpaste, but I already filled the glass, and once whiskey's been let loose you have to deal with it, like love or a rabid dog.
Richard Kadrey
#2. I feel like, when I arrive at the hospital, I want a glass of whiskey, I want the epidural in my back and I want to get hit in the face with a baseball bat.
Kristen Bell
#3. You taste like the last drop of whiskey
at 3 am
after a lousy day
like the first gulp of coffee on a Monday sipped behind a desk
hot and bitter
like the burning at the back of the throat
after the first cigarette
You taste, boy oh boy, like my next mistake.
Malak El Halabi
#4. A taste of whiskey had changed her mood, as a touch of acid will change the color of blue litmus paper.
Ross Macdonald
#5. Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whiskey and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.
Hunter S. Thompson
#6. Most criminals are stupid. They creep $500,000 homes in the Garden District, load up two dozen bottles of gin, whiskey, vermouth, and Collins mix in a $2,000 Irish linen tablecloth and later drink the booze and throw the tablecloth away.
James Lee Burke
#7. Whenever Mary the other twenty griffins Mary had finds riders the destruction they could bring would be enormous.
Whiskey Flowers
#8. watering holes had been packed for hours, with revelers throwing back shots of whiskey, hot toddies, and eggnog as they prepared to brave the cold for the traditional outdoor countdown. It seemed as if every city resident, young and old,
Tyler Anbinder
#9. Curing RM is in the realm of magical pixies and talking dogs that piss whiskey. It's impossible.
Dan Wells
#10. He taught me the difference between a good single malt whisky and a bad one.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
#11. What the hell's wrong with you? You look like you're about to have a seizure." - Hawk
"If your halo shines any brighter, it's going to permanently damage my retinas." - Jace
Suzannah Daniels
#12. Somewhere back a whiskey or so ago I wrote that thinking was a real thing in the world, just like anything else. I mean that very literally, materially. And it's true about poems, too.
Matthew Zapruder
#13. I like my whiskey neat and strong just as I like my women. Women who have matured in their minds and bodies; women who have faced the storms of life!
Because my life has always been about the thrill with the raging storms!
Avijeet Das
#14. With whiskey, the capillary bloom was more diffusely rosy than with gin and less purple than with wine. Every university dinner party was a study in blooms.
Jonathan Franzen
#15. Music, arrow to pierce all barriers. Music, the great equalizer. Music, invader of centuries. Nectar of demons, whiskey flask of God.
Carolina De Robertis
#16. An old stomach reforms more whiskey drinkers than a new resolve.
Don Marquis
#18. There is no such thing as a bad whisky. Some whiskies just happen to be better than others.
William Faulkner
#19. When I got him out he was near froze solid and shivering. He was shaking so hard that I wasted half a glass of whiskey trying to aim it for his mouth. Must have got enough of it into him, though, since it did seem to bring him back to life.
Abraham Lincoln
#20. Which would you part with first
your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion?
Brigham Young
#21. need this." Maureen jogged in place. "Eighteen kindergartners on a sugar high. Every teacher in America should have their salaries doubled and get a bouquet of roses every freaking week. And a bottle of Landon Whiskey's gold label." "I
Nora Roberts
#22. Keep close count of your nickels and dimes, stay away from whiskey, and never concede a putt.
Sam Snead
#23. What else could I tell them? I like my women like I like my whiskey: 12 years old and mixed up with coke.
Zach Braff
#24. A movie playing on the TV screen in front of us. Some sort of bad Tom Cruise drama. I've never liked Tom Cruise. He always reminded me of someone's creepy cousin, who smiles too big before he touches your butt and whispers something gross in your ear with hot whiskey breath.
Erin McCarthy
#25. Boston: Clear out eight hundred thousand people and preserve it as a museum piece. New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#26. Politicians and music don't mix. It's like whiskey and wine.
Kid Rock
#27. Her gaze lifted.
And collided with a full-sized predator.
His eyes were the dark whiskey gold her father liked to pour in heavily cut crystal glasses. Liquid fire, potent and seething with heat.
Jennifer Probst
#28. A pleasant aperitif, as well as a good chaser for a short quick whiskey, as well again for a fine supper drink, is beer.
M.F.K. Fisher
#29. Hey! Shouts Camel. There ain't no woman in the world worth two bottles of whiskey!
Sara Gruen
#30. There are some people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
H.L. Mencken
#31. The federal government cannot maintain a budget surplus any more than an alcoholic can leave a fresh bottle of whiskey untouched in the cupboard.
Ron Paul
#32. The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!
Mark Twain
#33. Coffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That's really all you need in life.
Brandi Carlile
#35. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P. J. O'Rourke
#36. One quart milk, one quart cream, one dozen eggs, 12 tablespoons sugar, one pint brandy, half-pint rye whiskey, quarter-pint rum, quarter-pint sherry. Mix. Store by cool window or in cellar.
Kristiana Gregory
#37. Standing at this liquor store, whiskey coming through my pores, feeling like I run this whole block
Bruno Mars
#38. Unless he had whiskey running through his veins, Willard came to the clearing every morning and evening to talk to God. Arvin didn't know which was worse, the drinking or the praying. As far back as he could remember, it seemed that his father had fought the Devil all the time.
Donald Ray Pollock
#39. To be certain you're consuming the real deal, look carefully at the label. W-h-i-s-k-e-y indicates the heavenly liquid from the Emerald Isle. Without the "e," it's from Scotland or some other godforsaken place.
Rashers Tierney
#40. Yves did not like showers, he preferred long, scalding baths, with newspapers, cigarettes, and whiskey on a chair next to the bathtub, and with Eric nearby to talk to, to shampoo his hair, and to scrub his back.
James Baldwin
#41. I have just had eighteen whiskeys in a row. I do believe that is a record.
Dylan Thomas
#42. My heart lost rhythm at the flicker of phantom in the whiskey-stained voice.
Iceberg Slim
#43. Really? You've started drinking whiskey before lunch?" Rush wasn't giving in ...
"He's fucking your sister. Hell, anyone that stupid has to drink to stay sane," Dean said in a bored tone.
Abbi Glines
#46. I must not mix champage, whiskey, and gin. (Repeated fifty times to fill column.)
Westbrook Pegler
#47. I like horses. My grandfather had a horse named Whiskey and I got to ride it all the time. They are terrifying and beautiful. If there's a beast taking you to heaven or hell it probably looks something like a horse.
Shane Warren Jones
#48. Beneath the moons' shadowscape, wisdom, women, whiskey and you are a dangerous and provocative combination...
Virginia Alison
#49. We're all Hitler inside. We're all Christ inside. I'm not keen on the idea, but it's true, isn't it? We've all got a little bit of the devil in us.
Jason Jack Miller
#50. Rossett wondered if the old man was scared, watching his words almost as closely as he watched the whiskey, making sure not to spill too much of either.
Tony Schumacher
#51. The room stank of semen and smoke and sweat and whiskey, of old carpet and sour hay, saddle leather, shit and cheap soap.
Annie Proulx
#52. A few drinks and the world was hers -
she wore her whiskey like a loaded gun.
Atticus Poetry
#53. You see a guy with one leg, he's got a story. "Land mine '69." You see a guy with one arm, he's got a story, too. "Snow blower, bottle of whiskey." You see a guy with one tooth, what would the story be? "Well, uh, I like a lot of taffy."
Dave Attell
#54. A bibliomaniac is one to whom books are like bottles of whiskey to the inebriate, to whom anything that is between covers has an intoxicating savor.
Hugh Walpole
#55. But mash whiskey took some of the dry away and made Augustus feel nicely misty inside - foggy and cool as a morning in the Tennessee hills. He seldom got downright drunk, but he did enjoy feeling misty along about sundown,
Larry McMurtry
#56. A Christian might drink only ginger ale at the tavern bar, but there he is already on the way to drinking beer and whiskey. The girl who attends a ball but never dances a step, will soon surrender her body to the lustful embrace of every casual male acquaintance as other dancers do.
John R. Rice
#57. I'm not very geeky. I'm quite homespun. I would say I'm more modern rustic than gadget-orientated. I like woollen things and log fires and whiskey
Benedict Cumberbatch
#58. I'm not cocky. I'm confident. It's a fine line, but there's a difference."
"Oh? And what's the difference?"
"It's simple. Confidence comes from knowing your skill and your worth while cocky attempts to cover the lack of both.
D.G. Whiskey
#59. Stay where you are." It's a raspy male voice. A whiskey voice or just someone who took a hit to the throat hard enough that it never healed right. There are six other guys behind him. All are armed with homemade blades, morning stars, and slings. "Who
Richard Kadrey
#60. It's a battered old suitcase to a hotel someplace, and a wound that will never heal. No prima donna, the perfume is on an old shirt that is stained with blood and whiskey. Goodnight to the street sweepers, the night watchmen flame keepers and goodnight, Matilda, too.
Tom Waits
#61. What happened when the ghost asked for a whiskey at his local bar? The bartender said, "Sorry sir, we don't serve spirits here." ***
Various
#62. Drinking's funny. When I look back on it, all of our important decisions have been figured out when we were drinking. Even when we talked about having to cut back on drinking, we'd be sitting at the kitchen table or out at the picnic table with a six-pack or whiskey.
Raymond Carver
#63. Whiskey will always be a part of my life.
Artie Lange
#64. I wish the Irish had never invented whiskey," Pat said. Mr. O'Malley smirked, "The Irish didn't invent it. God did. It was his way of keepin' the Irish from takin' over the world.
Ashlyn Chase
#65. I'd much rather be someone's shot of whiskey than everyone's cup of tea.
Carrie Bradshaw
#66. You know, they say that Bill Wilson asked for whiskey as his dying wish. The man was dying, at the end of the line, and he wanted the one vice he'd been fighting all his life. Even the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous wanted whiskey on his deathbed.
Kandi Steiner
#67. God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world.
Ed McMahon
#68. I gave up drinking lots of whiskey and began to practice yoga and meditation. As a result I am not dead.
Billy Childish
#69. They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.
Casey Stengel
#70. I like my coffee black, my whiskey straight and my women intelligent and challenging.
Raymond Bolton
#71. Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils.
Carrie Nation
#72. IT'S NOT THE HONEY WHISKEY IN A FRIDAY NIGHT - IT'S THE MANIC SHOW OF POETRY TWEETS THAT TURNS ME ON.
Amy King
#73. But to hear Kennedy when he was grandstanding in front of the McClellan Committee you might have thought I was making as much out of the pension fund as the Kennedys made out of selling whiskey.
Jimmy Hoffa
#74. Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.
W.C. Fields
#75. Whiskey grunted. By his count, he and Patrick had six days to go before he hauled the kid out by his ear on field work and let Fly Bait plan the destruction of all testosterone-based land mammals on general principal.
Amy Lane
#76. The Italians even have a word for the mark left on a table by a moist glass (culacino) while the Gaelic speakers of Scotland, not to be outdone, have a word for the itchiness that overcomes the upper lip just before taking a sip of whiskey. (Wouldn't they just?) It's sgriob.
Bill Bryson
#77. She bought a pint of whiskey and woke to discover that she had managed to construct a presentable hangover for herself on the morning of 1 January.
William Boyd
#78. Irish ex-priests don't succumb to drunkenness, we just become more talkative on whiskey,
Matthew Quick
#79. I look up the telephone number of Alcoholics Anonymous. Then, my hands shaking, I open the bar and drink the leftover whiskey, gin and vermouth-whatever I can lay my shaking hands on.
John Cheever
#80. I say, when Mercury arrives, we just pretend we're not here." Lawe tipped back his whiskey and swallowed in a single drink. "Stay real quiet. Don't make eye contact." They all nodded.
Lora Leigh
#81. I had a cigar in my mouth and whiskey on my breath. I felt like money. I looked like money.
Charles Bukowski
#82. I need some encouragement. I need to ask myself, "What would an Apollo astronaut do?" He'd drink three whiskey sours, drive his Corvette to the launchpad, then fly to the moon in a command module smaller than my Rover. Man those guys were cool.
Andy Weir
#83. He had a habit of remarking to bartenders that he didn't see any sense in mixing whiskey with water since the whiskey was already wet.
Joseph Mitchell
#84. Oh, God," Shannon moans. "We have to boil water," I tell Kenny. "She wants Cup-a-Soup?" "No, it's to sterilize things." "What's that?" I start rummaging through my house looking for anything useful. I get a knife, scissors, salad tongs, clothespins, a bottle of whiskey. Kenny
Tawni O'Dell
#85. He had the raw, rough voice of one who had marinated his larynx in whiskey and slow-cooked it in years of cigarette smoke.
Dean Koontz
#86. Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer!
Louis Untermeyer
#87. Every article I see is dope this, junkie that, whiskey this - that ain't my title.
Layne Staley
#88. The whiskey looks like transparent wood in my glass.
Katherine Dunn
#89. You put three girls in a house, and all of a sudden before you know it, you're talking about boys and drinking whiskey, and things go down and you get deep real quick.
Katie Aselton
#90. When true love broke my heart in half,
I took the whiskey from the shelf,
And told my neighbors when to laugh.
I keep a dog, and bark myself.
Theodore Roethke
#91. Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi' usquebae, we'll face the devil!
Robert Burns
#92. lair Hansen had always heard that near-death experiences made people reevaluate their lives. She'd spent nearly thirty years sure about what she wanted in life, but all it had taken for her to start questioning everything was some severe turbulence on a 747. She picked up her whiskey and took
Denise Grover Swank
#93. I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.
Babe Ruth
#94. Neon lights, moonlight, flickering streetlamps, and shadow through the bedroom window blanket us in an ever-changing quilt. Pearl wraps her arms around my middle and lays her head on my chest. I drink from the bottle of whiskey, both uncomfortable and comforted at the same time.
Logan Ryan Smith
#95. We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
Gary Allan
#96. I've been on the whisky diet - I've already lost three days!
Tommy Cooper
#97. I sat down to my supper, twas a bottle of red whiskey.
Jerry Garcia
#98. His two great loves were hard work and hard work's reward - whiskey, when he could get it, and gin when he could not.
Eleanor Catton
#99. It is a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructible in our wake and, at the same time, are drawn to all the things that kill: whiskey and cigarettes, unprotected sex, and deep-fried burritos.
Ariel Gore
#100. Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.
Mark Twain
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