Liquor Quotes - Page 12

• Your fey cousin here has the miraculous ability to hold his liquor--and mine, and yours, and the king's, and half the country's, I expect.

  Alethea Kontis

  Country, Cousin, Kings

  Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.238, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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?" "I don't want to say her name." "So you're calling her horse names?" Ky coked a dark eyebrow. "I can't wait to see how she reacts to Mr. Ed.

  Larissa Ione

  Horse, Dark, Eyebrows

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• Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Strong, Mean

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 3, l. 52

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• George Liquor is really the richest character I have. I'm amazed there aren't 365 episodes about him on TV already.

  John Kricfalusi

  Character, Tvs, Episodes

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• As I am writing, another illustration of ye generation of hills proposed above comes into my mind. Milk is as uniform a liquor as ye chaos was. If beer be poured into it & ye mixture let stand till it be dry, the surface of ye curdled substance will appear as rugged & mountanous as the Earth in any place.

  Isaac Newton

  Writing, Beer, Illustration

  Sir Isaac Newton (1959). “Correspondence: 1676-1687”

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• What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician -- these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin.

  Polly Adler

  Father, Real, Cities

  Polly Adler (1953). “A House is Not a Home”, p.9, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.

  Mo Yan

  Talking, People, Literature

  Mo Yan (2013). “The Republic of Wine: A Novel”, p.25, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• And the blunts and liquor killing our lungs and liver. The asthmatic drug-addict, I function with it

  Black Thought

  Weed, Rap, Smoking

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• I am going to St. Petersburg, Florida, tomorrow. Let the worthy citizens of Chicago get their liquor the best they can. I'm sick of the job-it's a thankless one and full of grief. I've been spending the best years of my life as a public benefactor.

  Al Capone

  Jobs, Grief, Florida

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• Peeta bakes. I hunt. Haymitch drinks until the liquor runs out.

  Suzanne Collins

  Running, Drink, Hunts

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.387, Scholastic Inc.

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• They who have drunk beer, fall on their back, but there is a peculiarity in the effects of the drink made from barley, for they that get drunk on other intoxicating liquors fall on all parts of their body, they fall on the left side, on the right side, on their faces, and and on their backs. But it is only those who get drunk on beer that fall on their backs with their faces upward.

  Aristotle

  Fall, Beer, Drunk

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• After the war, Prohibition was passed, and with liquor no longer legally available the nation plunged headlong into the Great Depression.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, War, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway”, p.73, Ballantine Books

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• Yes, I have actually mined coal, and distilled liquor, as well as seen a girl in a pink dress, and seen her take it off. I am 54 years old, weigh 220 pounds, and look like the chief dispatcher of a long-distance driving concern. I am a registered Democrat. I drink.

  James M. Cain

  Girl, Distance, Years

  James M. Cain (1982). “The Butterfly”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• Whatever the occasion, do not neglect alcohol. No other refreshment will do. Yes, alcohol kills brain cells, but it's very selective. It only kills the brain cells that contain good sense, shame, embarrassment, and restraint.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humorous, Drinking

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.42, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.

  William Faulkner

  Funny, Humorous, Drinking

  In James M. Webb and A. Wigfall Green William Faulkner of Oxford (1965) p. 110

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• Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Humorous, Drinking

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.420, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not the fault of the entrepreneurs that the consumers,the people, the common man,prefer liquor to Bibles and detective stories to serious books, and that governments prefer guns to butter. The entrepreneur does not make greater profits in selling bad things than in selling good things. His profits are the greater the better he succeeds in providing the consumers with those things they ask for most intensely.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Book, Gun, Men

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• You’re a terrible cook. That I’ll grant you. You can’t hold your liquor, either. And you have questionable taste in men. So no, you’re not perfect.” His voice sank to a husky whisper, and his gaze dropped to her mouth. “But you’re close. Close enough to restore a man’s faith in miracles.

  Tessa Dare

  Men, Voice, Perfect

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• One side of the street is a Church; across the road is a liquor store. Both of 'em keepin us poor.

  Chuck D

  Rapper, Interesting, Alcohol

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• Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive, like seawater, scented with the rich stench of ordure and corruption, and carrying with it hard, abrasive shards of grief.

  Simon Mawer

  Powerful, Grief, Guilt

  Simon Mawer (2011). “The Gospel Of Judas”, p.149, Hachette UK

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• In my experience, you run into trouble when you ask a group of beer-drinking men to perform any task more complex than remembering not to light the filter ends of cigarettes.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Running, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.86, Ballantine Books

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• When I was 13 and 14, there were a lot of jokes about my bar mitzvah and my grandparents, and then when I got older, it became more about touching boobs and trying to get liquor, you know? I kind of ran the gamut of infantile behavior... And I haven't moved one step forward since.

  Seth Rogen

  Grandparent, Touching, Trying

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. May 31, 2007.

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• What you need for breakfast, they say in East Tennessee, is a jug of good corn liquor, a thick steak and a hound dog. Then you feed the steak to the dog.

  Charles Kuralt

  Dog, Southern, Jugs

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• History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We're not especially interested in what it consists of. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar.

  Mal Peet

  Waiting, Liquor Stores, Bars

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• This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Sex, Hot, Passionate

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