Quotes about whiskey
Raymond Chandler -
There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.
Kody Keplinger - The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend
Well,” he sighed, squeezing my hand back. “I guess we were both running away in different ways.”“What do you mean?”Dad shook his head. “Your mother took a Mustang. I took a whiskey bottle.” He reached up and readjusted his glasses, an unconscious habit-he always did it when he was making a point. “I was so devastated by what your mother did to me that I forgot how horrible drinking is. I forgot to look on the bright side.”“Dad,” I said, “I don’t think there is a bright side to divorce. It’s a pr
Robert Black -
To be or not to be, fucked up on whiskey, that is the question.
Jeff Phillips - Whiskey Pike: A Bedtime Story for the Drinking Mankind.
A beverage of leisure is a serious business,” Shane Bowermaster was known to declare. “There can be no product of pleasure without the inverse on the end of the producer.
Virginia Alison -
Beneath the moons' shadowscape, wisdom, women, whiskey and you are a dangerous and provocative combination...
John Dickson Carr - The Case of the Constant Suicides
Alan Campbell opened one eye.From somewhere in remote distances, muffled beyond sight or sound, his soul crawled back painfully, through subterranean corridors, up into his body again. Toward the last it moved to a cacophony of hammers and lights. Then he was awake.The first eye was bad enough. But, when he opened his second eye, such as rush of anguish flowed through his brain that he hastily closed them again.
Lily King - Euphoria
He smelled of cigarettes and whiskey, the smell of Cambridge and youth.
Jean Stafford - The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford
To her own heart, which was shaped exactly like a valentine, there came a winglike palpitation, a delicate exigency, and all the fragrance of all the flowery springtime love affairs that ever were seemed waiting for them in the whisky bottle. To mingle their pain their handshake had promised them, was to produce a separate entity, like a child that could shift for itself, and they scrambled hastily toward this profound and pastoral experience.
Melissa Simmons - Resistance
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.
Ken Bruen - Blitz
The whiskey kicked like a mugger.
Charles Bukowski - Tales of Ordinary Madness
to ask them to legalize pot is something like asking them to put butter on the handcuffs before they place them on you, something else is hurting you - that's why you need pot or whiskey, or whips and rubber suits, or screaming music turned so fucking loud you can't think, or madhouses or mechanical cunts or 162 baseball games in a season. or vietnam or israel or the fear of spiders. your love washing her yellow false teeth in the sink before you screw.
Christopher S. Wren - The Cat Who Covered the World: The Adventures Of Henrietta And Her Foreign Correspondent
The cat arrived with a bottle of Scotch.
James Joyce - Dubliners
The light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
Haruki Murakami - A Wild Sheep Chase
The second whiskey is always my favorite. From the third on, it no longer has any taste. It's just something to pour into your stomach.
Ashwin Sanghi -
While I can’t walk on water, I can certainly wobble on whisky.
Ashwin Sanghi -
There is indeed one person who can help solve “writer’s block”. His name is Mr Johnnie Walker.
Joe Buckler - Later That Night
The medicine is in the eye of the beholder and right now you be-holding a big ass glass of it. So, shut up and drink your whiskey.
Joe Buckler - Later That Night
The only thing we chase our shots with are high-fives.
A. Ashley Straker - Infected Connection
His desire for this to be a joke was quickly replaced by a desire for whiskey.
Dave Matthes - The Kaleidoscope Syndrome: An Anthology
Hemingway is overrated,Twain is even more lost at sea,And all truths point to the mouth of a woman,Where both her whispers and her screams,Are born.Pour another glass, Beer, wine, whiskey,I don't care,So long as its wisdom is sharp,And it tells lies instead of promises.
W. C. Fields -
Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
Buffalo Bill -
We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.
Kate Bernheimer - The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold
Beer bottles, whiskey bottles, brown glass, green. They fell to the lawn and I'd feel serene. Adam was king to my stilted queen.
Dave Matthes - the Bastard
I've always felt that distant train whistles heard in the dead of night are the universe's way of letting us know the best days are neither ahead nor behind us...they're happening right now, cradled in the palms of our hands. But that doesn't change the fact that the whiskey, weed, and romance eventually runs out and the night will soon turn to day.
Catherynne M. Valente - The Bread We Eat in Dreams
I got a heart like a half bottle of no-label whiskey.Nothing to brag on,but enough for you, and all your friends, too.
B. Devine - Unconquered
Her eyes were the color of whiskey and grace. Moments with her always felt like getting drunk on Sundays.
Compton Mackenzie -
Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast.
Ljupka Cvetanova - The New Land
Keep trying?I'd rather keep walking. I mean, whisky is whisky
Ernest Hemingway - QUOTABLE HEMINGWAY: An A to Z Glossary of Quotations from Ernest Hemingway
Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey.
W. Somerset Maugham - The Painted Veil
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.
Sherman Alexie - The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away.