Whiskey Quotes

277 Whiskey quotes by 190 unique authors

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
Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey. — J D Salinger
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
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
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
Hey! Shouts Camel. There ain't no woman in the world worth two bottles of whiskey! — Sara Gruen

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