Whiskey Quotes

277 Whiskey quotes by 190 unique authors

Whiskey, like a beautiful woman, demands appreciation. You gaze first, then it's time to drink. — Haruki Murakami
Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough. — Mark Twain
Jules says there are three things that make you a grown-up: an eight-piece set of matching dishes; gin, vodka and whiskey in the house; and… — Jane Green
I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey. — H. L. Mencken
Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it… — Abraham Lincoln
the psyche has been burned and left us senseless, the world has been darker than lights-out in a closet full of hungry bats, and the… — Charles Bukowski
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… — Charles Bukowski
When the weather's rough and it's whiskey in the rain it's best to wrap your savior up in cellophane. — Tom Waits
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… — H. L. Mencken
I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to have leisure to… — Charles Bukowski
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.… — Dorothy Allison
It never takes longer than a few minutes, when they get together, for everyone to revert to the state of nature, like a party marooned… — Michael Chabon
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… — Mark Twain
The stains could be seen only in the sunlight, so Ruth was never really aware of them until later, when she would stop at an… — Alice Sebold
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… — W. Somerset Maugham
Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath. — John Updike
...I was tired of men. Hanging in doorways, standing too close, their smell of beer or fifteen-year-old whiskey. Men who didn't come to the emergency… — Janet Fitch
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… — John Steinbeck
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
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… — William Faulkner
My Papa's Waltz: The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy.… — Theodore Roethke
She's no lady. Her songs are all unbelievably unhappy or lewd. It's called Blues. She sings about sore feet, sexual relations, baked goods, killing your… — Ann-Marie MacDonald
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
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… — Craig Ferguson
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… — Ava Gardner

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