Top 100 Quotes About Whisky
#1. He could dismiss several schools of philosophy by shifting slightly in his chair or toting his whisky glass.
Dylan Moran
#2. I like my whisky old and my women young.
Errol Flynn
#3. He downed the rest of his drink and poured himself another from the bottle of whisky room service had brought up: Jameson. The only good thing ever to come out of Ireland.
Jo Nesbo
#4. He taught me the difference between a good single malt whisky and a bad one.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
#5. The proper drinking of Scotch whisky is more than indulgence: it is a toast to civilization, a tribute to the continuity of culture, a manifesto of man's determination to use the resources of nature to refresh mind and body and enjoy to the full the senses with which he has been endowed.
David Daiches
#6. His lips covered hers and turned potent and possessive. His mouth tasted of berries, honey, and a tang of whisky. It was a combination a woman could succumb to without a moment's hesitation - succumb to and be seduced by.
Vonnie Davis
#7. There is no such thing as a bad whisky. Some whiskies just happen to be better than others.
William Faulkner
#8. Whisky has always tasted like introspection to me, a quiet moment after taking a sip, the lingering aftertaste, inviting you to ponder upon the flavours on your tongue.
Hannu Rajaniemi
#9. WHEAT, n. A cereal from which a tolerably good whisky can be made; ... also for bread. The French are said to eat more bread "per capita" of population than any other people, which is natural, for only they know how to make the stuff palatable.
Ambrose Bierce
#10. Willy, one of the guys at the distillery, comes up with what Oliver and I agree is the best definition of what a 'dram' actually is: 'A measure of whisky that is pleasing to both guest and host.
Iain Banks
#11. She had about her a strong smell of hair-spray and her lunch-time whisky.
Elizabeth Taylor
#12. THE LITTLE MAN HURRIED into the Fountain and ordered a very large whisky. "Because," he announced to the pub in general, "I deserve it.
Neil Gaiman
#13. I was glad to see other blues guitarists like Albert King have crossover successes like me. We played in the same places like the Whisky and the Filmore. When Albert made his guitar cry, he could cut you so deep!
B.B. King
#14. Wine is fine. But whisky is quicker.
Hank Moody
#15. Give a man with a death wish a bottle of whisky and a loaded gun, you get a dead body. Give a martyr a quote from scripture and a pocket full of
prayers and you get a room full of corpses.
Kevis Hendrickson
#16. The feminine in the man is the sugar in the whisky. The masculine in the woman is the yeast in the bread. Without these ingredients the result is flat, without tang or flavor.
Edna Ferber
#17. Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another) ... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.
Harper Lee
#18. Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.
Francoise Sagan
#19. Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel amongst the bridge players and swillers of easy-come-by whisky. My chest got me out of active service and into guilt, as I wrote two, or is it three of the novels for which I am now acclaimed.
Patrick White
#21. Randy stared into the glass he held in his hand, gazing into its cobra eyes. A double shot of thirty-year-old single malt whisky. You can't be an alcoholic when you only drink top shelf. Right?
Ted Magnuson
#22. While I can't walk on water, I can certainly wobble on whisky.
Ashwin Sanghi
#23. An appreciation of prose is learned, not instinctive. It is an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky.
Abigail Padgett
#24. He sat beside the window in the dark, with his eyes closed. Hearing to the sound of the rain. The whisky in his glass burnt his throat, while the smoke of his cigarette filled his lungs and the fire inside his heart consumed his soul slowly.
Akshay Vasu
#25. Ancient, grizzled, wild-eyed, emaciated by fever, dragged his weary frame up the veranda steps and collapsed in a steamer-chair. Whisky and soda kept him going while he made report and turned in his accounts.
Jack London
#26. I remember that first week at the Whisky and the gigs we (The Buffalo Springfield) did with the Byrds, We could really smoke ! That band never got on record as bad, and as hard as we were. Live we sounded like the Rolling Stones ...
Stephen Stills
#27. on his off nights he could forever be the shadowy, multifarious man who blew in and out on a dangerous breeze, sipping whisky before pollinating another dark place with his cowboy mysteriousness. In
Michael Paterniti
#28. About two months into the Whisky, I borrowed some money and rented a remote recording truck.
Johnny Rivers
#29. Scotch whisky is made from barley and the morning dew on angel's nipples.
Warren Ellis
#30. Walking up to the Whisky some guys said to me 'the Scene is dead. Stop wearing makeup faggot!' All I could do was smile and think about the BVB Army and the legions of dedicated fans BVB has. I will wear my warpaint proudly, thank you very much! Seriously love you all.
Jinxx
#31. I've been on the whisky diet - I've already lost three days!
Tommy Cooper
#32. Open the whisky, Tom,' she ordered, 'and I'll make you a mint julep. Then you won't seem so stupid to yourself ... Look at the mint!
F Scott Fitzgerald
#33. I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon.
Hugo Black
#34. My room is a grave yard of whisky bottles in a swamp of stale beer, cigar ashes, and dick jokes.
Vincent Brooks
#35. I'll tell you the truth: I had a double brandy before the game but, before, it used to be four bottles of whisky. Not any more. I was fine. I had a glass of wine after the game. But it was just a mouthful.
Paul Gascoigne
#36. I enjoy hitting a batsman more than getting him out. I like to see blood on the pitch. And I've been training on whisky.
Jeff Thomson
#37. The Virgin brand is not a product like Coca-Cola or Famous Grouse whisky; it's an attitude and a way of life to many. That attitude is about giving customers a better time and better value in a fun way that embraces life and seeks to give the customers something new.
Richard Branson
#38. I once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in.
Dave Grohl
#39. As he started 'Whisky and Gin' and the cheering and the shrieking filled my senses, I thought of Mama, shattered by the war and Papa's death and I wished with all my heart that she could understand how it felt to be us that night - how it felt to be eighteen and unbeaten, eighteen and alive.
Eva Rice
#40. Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
Truman Capote
#41. Whisky making is an act of cooperation between the blessings of nature and the wisdom of man.
Masataka Taketsuru
#43. A fine single malt whisky, of course, is purely medicinal - it cures all manner of ailments one may care to imagine.
Alex Morritt
#44. Dell had left the army and taken the discipline home with him. I'd left the theatre world and taken the whisky sodas home with me.
Mark Capell
#45. I haven't had an alcoholic drink in 22 years, but when I did drink I'd go for either Canadian whisky or Budweiser. Sometimes both. For a long time I used to think "Hey you, get off the floor!" was my name.
Alice Cooper
#46. You know these love letters mix with whisky, just don't light a match when you kiss me.
Jon Bon Jovi
#47. After that initial success, every chance we got we'd hire that remote recording truck and just record stuff at the Whisky because it was so inexpensive.
Johnny Rivers
#48. My dad worked for different companies that made whiskey for a long time, so we were definitely whiskey drinkers. Growing up, my friends would get toy cars, and I would get swag from whisky companies.
Mike Krieger
#49. It's like trying to drink whisky from a bottle of wine.
Elton John
#50. Chris Hillman (of the Byrds) recounts ... 'What happened to the Buffulo Springfield at the Whisky was similar to what happened to us at Ciro's ... everybody wanted to be there. It became the place to be ... a great gig.'
Johnny Rogan
#51. Her boozy breath was day-old, but of quality of Origin. Malt whisky, Carl guessed. The air was so thick with it, an expert would probably be able to determine the vintage.
Jussi Adler-Olsen
#52. Harry," she said, her voice a little thick with the whisky. "You found the way, didn't you?" What's so wonderful about it? I thought. Dogs do.
Charles Williams
#53. the finding of a cargo of whisky was, in a sense, like the finding by the Israelites of manna in the wilderness. And
Alexander McCall Smith
#54. If whisky or salt won't cure it, then to hell with it. I worry about important things.
Florence King
#55. What he hates about whisky hangovers, he thinks now, is the synthesis they achieve between the spiritual and the gastric, as if your soul needs to throw up or your stomach has realised life is meaningless.
Ned Beauman
#57. The shot was so precise that the bullet went out his forehead and shattered a whisky bottle against the wall behind the counter.
Justin Bienvenue
#58. Whisky making is the art of making poison pleasant
Samuel Johnson
#59. Nursing homes and rest homes are all the rage round here. Most of us will be in them before very long. Do you fancy that? Are you looking forward to it? No, neither am I. But I'm doing something about that. Just whisky and cigarettes, so far, mostly.
Andrew Davies
#60. After the week at the Fillmore we flew down to L.A. to hang out and pick up whatever gigs we could. We did a gig in Santa Barbara on July 1st and then the next night we opened for Sam & Dave at the Whisky ...
Mitch Mitchell
#61. Whisky nosers, as they called themselves, eschewed what they saw as the pretentiousness of wine vocabulary. While oenophiles resorted to recondite adjectives, whisky nosers spoke the language of everyday life, detecting hints of stale seaweed, or even diesel fuel.
Alexander McCall Smith
#62. I would say whisky or pills. Not both because that can have disastrous consequences.
John C. Reilly
#63. That's Delhi. When life gets too much for you all you need to do is to spend an hour at Nigambodh Ghat,watch the dead being put to flames and hear their kin wail for them. Then come home and down a couple of pegs of whisky. In Delhi, death and drink make life worth living,
Khushwant Singh
#64. I was playing birthday parties. House-rent parties where they used to sell whisky during prohibition.
Thelonious Monk
#65. And when a man that old takes up money-hunting, it's like when he takes up gambling or whisky or women. He aint going to have time to quit.
William Faulkner
#66. Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.
Winston Churchill
#67. Gin and whisky cost so much more. Oblivion and courage could no longer be purchased for the price of an old song.
Norah Hoult
#69. No one moved to get the whisky, from which I judged there were three pocket flasks ready for emergency.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
#70. With more insight into the English character, I poured out a stiff whisky and soda and placed it in front of the gloomy inspector.
Agatha Christie
#71. Some scientists find, or so it seems, that they get their best ideas when smoking; others by drinking coffee or whisky. Thus there is no reason why I should not admit that some may get their ideas by observing, or by repeating observations.
Karl Popper
#72. A woman is like fine whisky. Deep and subtle, smooth but strong, warm yet lingering.
Wan-Ling, Wong
#73. For a bad hangover take the juice of two quarts of whisky.
Eddie Condon
#75. How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whisky? Do they cry?
Sebastian Junger
#76. Perhaps I would like a glass of whisky. Yes, that seems more likely.
Douglas Adams
#77. And he, despite the gallons of free whisky on offer, was wishing himself violently elsewhere.
Stephen Fry
#78. She didn't think she'd ever shown enough gratitude for the quick wits of the people she worked with, and if the evening ever ended, which it showed no signs of doing, she would rectify that. She would buy them all flowers or whisky and write a card thanking them for being so clever.
Nick Hornby
#79. Whisky, I find, helps clarity of thought. And reduces pain. It has the additional virtue of making you drunk or, if taken in sufficient quantity, very drunk.
Julian Barnes
#80. Dodsley appeared by his side just then, silently, as if by magic. He offered Max a daught of whisky on a tray.
Max glanced at him in surprise and saw that Dodsley had brought the whole bottle. "Do I look that bad?"
"You look like you could use it, sir," his sphinxlike butler observed.
Gaelen Foley
#81. The problem with heartbreak is that nobody can help you when you're heartbroken. Nobody and nothing. Not the films you watch alone desperately searching for a character who feels the way you do, not the glasses or bottles of whisky you keep by your bed and certainly not Instagram.
Alexa Chung
#82. The man in the dark suit sips his Laphroaig and water, savoring the marshy taste, the body-in-the-bog quality of the whisky.
Neil Gaiman
#83. Yes, life is weird, but I embrace the weird. Let everyone else go marching off into their great shining futures if they want. Me, I've always been more than content to tip my whisky bottle and take a ride straight into the heart of the spectacular now.
Tim Tharp
#84. I'm on a whisky diet. I've lost three days already.
Tommy Cooper
#85. He was a bloody genius with these people, slicker than any confidence artist, more popular than whisky in a room full of Irishmen.
Meredith Duran
#86. The light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
James Joyce
#87. I'm on a whisky diet. I've lost 3 days already.
Tommy Cooper
#88. I don't think I'll ever become used to you Ellis sisters' penchant for whisky."
She waved an idle hand as she surveyed the room. "We're half Scottish. I think there might be a law against us not liking it.
Kristen Callihan
#89. Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter.
Flannery O'Connor
#90. The Highlanders regale themselves with whisky. They find it an excellent preservation against the winter cold. It is given with great success to the infants in the confluent smallpox.
Tobias Smollett
#91. No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
H.L. Mencken
#92. He tasted of whisky and his skin was rough where he hadn't shaved, but Mirabelle kissed him back.
Sara Sheridan
#93. It is true that whisky improves with age. The older I get, the more I like it.
Ronnie Corbett
#94. Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.
George Bernard Shaw
#95. I take the juice of two bottles of whisky.
Dean Martin
#96. Keep trying?
I'd rather keep walking. I mean, whisky is whisky
Ljupka Cvetanova
#97. Fortunately, an extremely sexy, pixie-voiced blond named Ronnie Harran, who booked the Whisky, saw us ... She had an ear for talent ... the Whisky was finally a gig we could be proud of ...
John Densmore
#100. She wished it were evening now, wished for the great relief of the calendar inking itself out, of day done and night coming, of ice cubes knocking about in a glass beneath the whisky spilling in, that fine brown affirmation of need.
Michelle Latiolais
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