Best Whiskey Wisdom
277 Whiskey quotes by 190 unique authors
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Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey.
— J D Salinger
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The bottle of whiskey - the second one - was now in constant demand by all present, excepting Catherine, who 'felt just as good on…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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sometimes i'd wake up at two or three in the morning and not be able to fall asleep again. i'd get out of bed, go…
— Haruki Murakami
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It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because they are good for him, and when…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Hey! Shouts Camel. There ain't no woman in the world worth two bottles of whiskey!
— Sara Gruen
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All right. Let's give you something to tell your grandkids about. Or great-grandkids. Or great-great-grandkids." I snort with glee, delirious with excitement. Charlie winks and…
— Sara Gruen
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It was just so in the American Revolution, in 1776, the first delicacy the men threw overboard in Boston harbor was the tea, woman's favorite…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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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…
— Karen Chance
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I will never, ever drink whiskey again. From now on, it's strictly sherry.
— Libba Bray
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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.…
— Lora Leigh
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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…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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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,…
— Willie Nelson
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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…
— Donald Ray Pollock
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Fuuuuuuuuuuck." Kynan scrubbed his face. "I could use a double shot of whiskey right now." "I'm sure Flicka keeps hard liquor behind the bar." "Flicka?"…
— Larissa Ione
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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
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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…
— Kevin Hearne
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Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you then the whiskey must.
— Carl Sandburg
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I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death,…
— Johnny Cash
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Oh, September! It is so soon for you to lose your friends to good work and strange loves and high ambitions. The sadness of that…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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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…
— Kami Garcia
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It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away.
— Sherman Alexie
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He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk, but reading was…
— James Salter
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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
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Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline and Fall of…
— Louis L'Amour
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Whisky is liquid sunshine.
— George Bernard Shaw
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