Blood Quote by Rebecca Harding Davis

“The staunch, old soakers, on the other hand men who, if put on tap, would have yielded a red alcoholic liquor, by way of…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Bourbon's the only drink. Youcan take all that champagne stuff and pour it down the English Channel. Well, why wait 80 years before you…

— John Michael Hayes

Men to whom wine had brought death long before lay by springs of wine and drank still, too stupefied to know their lives were…

— Gene Wolfe

I am Bourbon as a matter of honour, royalist according to reason and conviction, and republican by taste and character.

— François-René de Chateaubriand

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“He was a late night shot of bourbon the taste of him left me burning with mouth on fire body full of desire.”

— Melody Lee

“Old but contented, the face of a man who had sipped life’s vinegar and found it, by and large, to be mostly whiskey, and…

— Neil Gaiman

“The bourbon goes into the recipe, Miss Connor, not into you,” he’d said from directly behind me. He had a way of doing that,…

— Jenny Lyn

“...it was not considered right for a man not to drink, although drink was a dangerous thing. On the contrary, not to drink would…

— Eoghan Odinsson

“Quality wine, Scotch, and coffee had been the three irreplaceable commodities after the death of Old Earth.”

— Dan Simmons

The proper drinking of Scotch whisky is more than indulgence: it is a toast to civilization, a tribute to the continuity of culture, a…

— David Daiches

“The old man had been tanned by the light of too many beer signs, and it just goes to show that you can’t live…

— Daniel Woodrell