Whiskey Quotes - Page 9

• Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey.

  J. D. Salinger

  Islands, Sea, Phrases

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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 nothing at all.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Bottles, Demand, Constant

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ruth Prigozy (2008). “The Great Gatsby”, p.30, Oxford University Press

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• Hey! Shouts Camel. There ain't no woman in the world worth two bottles of whiskey!

  Sara Gruen

  Two, Camels, Bottles

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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 pours me another finger's worth of whiskey. Then, on second thought, he tips the bottle again. I reach out and grab its neck. "Better not," I say. "Don't want to get tipsy and break a hip.

  Sara Gruen

  Giving, Glee, Bottles

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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 a lone, half-dissolved gummy bear, which was a surprise, since I couldn’t actually recall having eaten any. Fun times.

  Karen Chance

  Fun, Beer, Night

  Karen Chance (2011). “Hunt the Moon: A Cassie Palmer Novel”, p.241, Penguin

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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

  Coffee, Black, Devil

  Jack Ketchum (2005). “Off season: the unexpurgated edition”, Overlook Connection Pr

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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

  Wine, Class, Unfair

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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 the Roman Empire for the price of a cheap shirt. You can buy a fair beginning of an education in any bookstore with a good stock of paperback books for less than you would spend on a week's supply of gasoline.

  Louis L'Amour

  Plato, Book, Fall

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.11, Bantam

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• Crooked cards and straight whiskey, Slow horses and fast women.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Horse, Cards, Crooked

  Kenneth Rexroth (1967). “The Collected Shorter Poems”, p.321, New Directions Publishing

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• Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime-it's not very scientific, but it helps.

  Alexander Fleming

  Health, Helping, Bedtime

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• He was a parade all by himself, a burst of dazzle and jingle, Santa Claus drinking his whiskey straight and groaning with a bellyache... Babe Ruth made the music that his joyous years danced to in a continuous party... What Babe Ruth is comes down, one generation handing it down to the next, as a nation heirloom.

  Jimmy Cannon

  Baseball, Party, Drinking

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• Religion is like an ice cold whiskey on a hot day.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Atheist, Ice, Hot

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• If I'd just paid money to watch a soccer game, I'd want to kill someone too (once the buzz wore off and I realized where I was, because the only thing that would make me pay to watch a soccer game is perhaps a half gallon of whiskey).

  Tom O'Brien

  Soccer, Games, Watches

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• I was very lucky to be offered a lovely piece of property to build a career on. I started building a house on it, but it wasn't necessarily a house I would want to live in. So I ripped down that house, and I worked with these great lumberjacks to build a really cool cabin-a place I want to drink whiskey in and hang out until the sun rises.

  Vanessa Carlton

  Careers, House, Lovely

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• My life was once whiskey, tears and cigarettes... now it's snot, tears and a color of poop. Bliss. I do miss the whiskey, though.

  Pink

  Motherhood, Color, Missing

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• It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as whiskey, or any other of the necessaries of life. It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it.

  Mark Twain

  Believe, Reading, Eye

  Mark Twain (2006). “Mark Twain Speaking”, p.158, University of Iowa Press

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• I'm a beer man. I tried to drink whiskey and Scotch but I don't get it. It smells like a girl who didn't shower and just splashed a lot of perfume on.

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Girl, Beer, Men

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• Yes, it's true I once knocked out a horse. It was at a fiesta in my mother's home town of Guarare. Someone bet me a bottle of whiskey that I couldn't do it

  Roberto Duran

  Mother, Horse, Home

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• The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True, you can sit outside in Paris and drink little cups of coffee, but why this is more stylish than sitting inside and drinking large glasses of whiskey I don't know.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Drinking, Coffee, Glasses

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.154, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• For God's sake bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country.

  Reginald Maudling

  Country, Scotch, Awful

  Said on the aeroplane after visiting Northern Ireland for the first time,

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• I get whiskey bent and hell bound.

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Evil, Hell, Bent

  Song: Whiskey Bent And Hell Bound, 2006

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• So the only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost. All the wrong environment will do is run his blood pressure up; he will spend more time being frustrated or outraged. My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.

  William Faulkner

  Running, Artist, Blood

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• Come on boys, you must listen unto me, lay off the whiskey and let that cocaine be.

  Johnny Cash

  Boys, Alcohol, Drug

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• Give me lace and whiskey, Mama's own remedy.

  Alice Cooper

  Giving, Alcohol, Drug

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• I'm drowning in whiskey river.

  Willie Nelson

  Rivers, Alcohol, Drug

  Song: Whiskey River

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