Whiskey Whiskey Quotes

#1. Champagne's funny stuff. I'm used to whiskey. Whiskey is a slap on the back, and champagne's a heavy mist before my eyes.

James Stewart

#2. May your glass always be full, may there always be a roof over your head, and may you dirty sinners be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows you're dead.

Jason Jack Miller

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Economy, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.

Ambrose Bierce

#6. 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

#7. [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

#8. When a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains.

Harper Lee

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. Mir astronaut Jerry Linenger writes in his memoir that he was surprised to find a bottle of cognac in one arm of his spacesuit and a bottle of whiskey in the other. (Linenger was the Frank Burns of space exploration:

Mary Roach

#12. The privileged classes can afford psychoanalysis and whiskey. Whereas all we get is sermons and sour wine. This is manifestly unfair. I protest, silently.

Donald Barthelme

#13. 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

#14. The colonel had a single vice - whiskey - and he looked forward to the anesthetic burn of the Kentucky bourbon with sublime anticipation.

Greg Iles

#15. She thinks of James Grierson. His Kisses tasted like whiskey, and they landed right and true.

Alden Bell

#16. God created whiskey to keep the Irish from taking over the world.

Kinky Friedman

#17. Some of you fellers are getting 'Whiskey Slick.'

Casey Stengel

#18. She tasted like whiskey and bad choices,

Elizabeth Kelly

#19. 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

#20. I believe in God and the whole business but I love women best, music and science next, whiskey next, God fourth, and my fellowman hardly at all.

Walker Percy

#21. Harper unlocked a drawer in his desk and removed a bottle of Vat 69 whiskey and two shot glasses. He uncorked the bottle while explaining that policy permitted him to give each crewman a shot to loosen his tongue before reviewing a tough mission.

Adam Makos

#22. There are facts can poison you dead as arsenic. I have long known this to be true. There are facts can get you drunker than sipping whiskey straight.

Alice Randall

#23. Vodka is a wonderful drink. You can drink so much of it without being as hung over as you would if you were drinking one of the brown liquors - the whiskeys and such. It's a great drink to go with appetizers.

Gary Shteyngart

#24. A drunkard is like a whiskey-bottle, all neck and belly and no head.

Austin O'Malley

#25. Warm honey, a shot of raw whiskey, and a little hot puff of smoke wafted from his mouth like a fine and rare brandy being decanted. -- Chloe San Valentine from 3 WISHES

Peggy Jaeger

#26. We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier.

Mignon McLaughlin

#27. Jabbo and Bungalow came in out of the weather in a bathless reek of cold wool and splo whiskey.

Cormac McCarthy

#28. He loves her like a gambler loves a fast racehorse or a desperate man loves whiskey. That kind of love eats a man up.

Dorothy Allison

#29. I smoke two cartons of unfiltered cigs and down a bottle of American rye whiskey as a warm up, generally. Then swallow beach sand and general aggregate to get some texture in the voice, followed by a stick of butter to smooth it all out. This works for me, but may not be for everyone.

Roger Craig Smith

#30. Would you like a whiskey?' I say. 'I've got some.'
(That's original. I bet nobody's ever thought of that way of bridging the gap before.)

Jean Rhys

#31. I get whiskey bent and hell bound.

Hank Williams Jr.

#32. I read a little bit of nonfiction and a lot of poetry. I think of poetry as my shot of whiskey when I don't have time to savor a whole bottle of wine.

Alice McDermott

#33. The whiskey's aroma was his equivalent of fresh brewed coffee. 'Here's looking at you, love,' Mayne said aloud, raising the bottle to his lips.

Del James

#34. I am going to add a cold beer. Why not a bottle of whiskey? Because my story is cheap and cannot afford such props. Goddamn, even my imagination is not wealthy enough to order a bottle of Jack!

Plamen Chetelyazov

#35. I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families.

Thomas Jefferson

#36. A woman warm and willing is what I'm looking for, cause the whiskey ain't working anymore.

Travis Tritt

#37. Crooked cards and straight whiskey,
Slow horses and fast women.

Kenneth Rexroth

#38. Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.

Mark Twain

#39. I envied the men. I envied the irresponsibility their surroundings and genitals allowed. I envied the artificial affection they bought. But most of all, I envied that flicker of euphoria they got to feel, like a quick sip of whiskey that warmed their chest and eased their pain.

Maggie Young

#40. - so much like riding dangerous women
with whiskey coloured eyes -
such women as once fell dead with their lovers
with fire in their heads and slippery froth on thighs

Al Purdy

#41. Black coffee's a lot like whiskey, you know? All devil and no trimmin's. Always liked my sins pure and take it as it comes.

Jack Ketchum

#42. We make our own whiskey and our own smoke, too. Ain't too many things these ole boys can't do.

Hank Williams Jr.

#43. The bottle of whiskey - the second one - was now in constant demand by all present, excepting Catherine, who 'felt just as good on nothing at all.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#44. When all else fails, drink some tea. Really. You'll be amazed how many problems it can solve. We like to think of it as Buddha's whiskey.

Tara Cottrell

#45. Empty whiskey bottles strewn about like forgotten failures

Michael Coorlim

#46. But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced fly-fishing, I became too stink in' proud to use the title. I won't touch watered whiskey and I take no pride in watered-down degrees.

Robert A. Heinlein

#47. All humor aside, a 2 to 3-gallon pot still is an ideal size for a hobbyist. A three-gallon still will produce approximately one bottle of 50 percent to 55 percent whiskey, per batch.

Bryan Davis

#48. Brother, be a brother, fill this tiny cup of mine. And please, sir, make it whiskey: I have no head for wine!

Nick Cave

#49. As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#50. Whiskey don't make liars
it just makes fools.

James McMurtry

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. Preston Black couldn't sleep the whole night through, Preston Black couldn't sleep the whole night through. He'd lay in bed 'til the morning came, but the devil'd visit him just the same. Preston Black couldn't sleep the whole night through.

Jason Jack Miller

#54. 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

#55. I've been on the whisky diet - I've already lost three days!

Tommy Cooper

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. 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

#59. The whiskey looks like transparent wood in my glass.

Katherine Dunn

#60. 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

#61. 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

#62. 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

#63. 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

#64. IT'S NOT THE HONEY WHISKEY IN A FRIDAY NIGHT - IT'S THE MANIC SHOW OF POETRY TWEETS THAT TURNS ME ON.

Amy King

#65. Indeed, in 1794, George Washington had not only authorized sending national troops into battle against Pennsylvanians resisting the whiskey tax, he had taken to the field to lead the forces himself. Later, Andrew Jackson had acted boldly to crush South Carolina's attempt to nullify the 1832 tariff.

Harold Holzer

#66. I'd much rather be someone's shot of whiskey than everyone's cup of tea.

Carrie Bradshaw

#67. 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

#68. 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

#69. 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

#70. I have just had eighteen whiskeys in a row. I do believe that is a record.

Dylan Thomas

#71. Standing at this liquor store, whiskey coming through my pores, feeling like I run this whole block

Bruno Mars

#72. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

P. J. O'Rourke

#73. 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

#74. Politicians and music don't mix. It's like whiskey and wine.

Kid Rock

#75. There is no such thing as a bad whisky. Some whiskies just happen to be better than others.

William Faulkner

#76. A taste of whiskey had changed her mood, as a touch of acid will change the color of blue litmus paper.

Ross Macdonald

#77. The whiskey died away in time and was renewed and died again, but the street ran on. From that night the thousand streets ran as one street, with imperceptible corners and changes of scene ...

William Faulkner

#78. NO POLITICIAN COULD devote as many evenings to poker and whiskey as had Henry Clay and expect a decorous presidential campaign.

Amy S. Greenberg

#79. As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn't in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.

Willie Nelson

#80. Have some whiskey,there's nothing like it for clearing the head. You must expect to be thick-witted if you insist upon drinking beer.

W. Somerset Maugham

#81. Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.

W. Somerset Maugham

#82. I'm sure you have drawers overflowing with panties the ladies throw at the stage. We saw you guys play down at Mon Brewing a few times. Way to keep the Nineties alive.

Jason Jack Miller

#83. Always carry a large flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and further, always carry a small snake.

Sara Gruen

#84. As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.

Thomas A. Edison

#85. Whiskey, like a beautiful woman, demands appreciation. You gaze first, then it's time to drink.

Haruki Murakami

#86. I had been up all night with my old friend Allen Ginsberg, the poet, and we had both slid into the abyss of whiskey madness and full-bore substance abuse. It was wonderful,

Hunter S. Thompson

#87. Americans are big boys. You can talk them into almost anything. Just sit with them for half an hour over a bottle of whiskey and be a nice guy.

Nguyen Cao Ky

#88. I grabbed some sani-wipes from Tracy and cleaned off my hands as best I could, and then drizzled whiskey over them. If it didn't kill the germs, at least it would get them drunk enough to be cooperative.

Mark Tufo

#89. I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.

H.L. Mencken

#90. It (a singer's voice) sounds as if it was aged in a whiskey cask, cured in an Ozarks smokehouse, dropped down a stone well, pulled out damp, and kept moist in the palm of a wicked woman's hand.

Michael Perry

#91. I love whiskey and haggis. I can't get enough of either.

Kevin McKidd

#92. 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

#93. 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

#94. Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

Lord Dunsany

#95. Congress allows lemonade to the members and has it charged under the head of stationery-I move also that whiskey be allowed under the item of fuel.

Davy Crockett

#96. The first time I lose I drink whiskey, second time I lose I drink gin. Third time I lose I drink anything 'cause I think I'm gonna win.

Gram Parsons

#97. This is being written in another seaside cottage on another coast. Gin and whiskey have bitten rings in the table where I sit.

John Cheever

#98. She and I would trade books, talk endlessly, drink cheap whiskey, engage in unremarkable sex. You know, the stuff of everyday.

Haruki Murakami

#99. There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.

William Faulkner

#100. The Irish sometimes make and keep a vow against whiskey; these vows are usually limited to a short time.

Maria Edgeworth