Whisky Quotes

• It is true that whisky improves with age. The older I get, the more I like it.

  Ronnie Corbett

  Age, Whiskey

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• Whisky making is an act of cooperation between the blessings of nature and the wisdom of man.

  Masataka Taketsuru

  Blessing, Men, Cooperation

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• Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my scotch, I say, I'm thirsty, not dirty.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Drinking, Dirty, Food

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• Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.

  Mark Twain

  Drinking, Fighting, Water

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• Whiskey, like a beautiful woman, demands appreciation. You gaze first, then it's time to drink.

  Haruki Murakami

  Beautiful, Appreciation, Scotch Whisky

  Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

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• Whisky is liquid sunshine.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sunshine, Liquid, Whiskey

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• Whisky, I find, helps clarity of thought. And reduces pain. It has the additional virtue of making you drunk or, if taken in sufficient quantity, very drunk.

  Julian Barnes

  Pain, Taken, Drunk

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.97, Random House

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• When life hands you lemons, make whisky sours.

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Hands, Whiskey

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• I drink to make other people more interesting.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Life, Drinking

  "How To Be Interesting: Simple Ways to Increase Your Personal Appeal". Book by David Gillespie, Mark Warren, 2013.

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• I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch.

  George Burns

  Funny, Music, Scotch

  George Burns (1980). “Living It Up”, Berkley

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• The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.

  James Joyce

  Fall, Scotch, Glasses

  "Best-loved Joyce".

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• The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.

  Samuel Beckett

  Bears, Grudge, Drunkenness

  Samuel Beckett (1931). “Proust”

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• Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore always carry a small snake.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Witty, Clever

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nights without work I spend with whisky and books.

  Haruki Murakami

  Book, Night

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• Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.

  Truman Capote

  Long, Whiskey, Fury

  1980 Music for Chameleons,'Handcarved Coffins'.

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• Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.

  Mark Twain

  Drinking, Beer, Men

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• If when you say 'whiskey' you mean the devil's brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster that defiles innocence, dethrones reason... then I am certainly against it. But, if when you say 'whiskey' you mean the oil of conversation, the philosophic wine... the drink that enables a man to magnify his joy... then I am certainly for it. This is my stand. I will not retreat from it. I will not compromise.

  Noah S. Sweat

  Wine, Mean, Men

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• Whiskey is by far the most popular of all remedies that won't cure a cold.

  Jerry Vale

  Drinking, Scotch Whisky, Alcohol

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• My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Thinking, Scotch, Names

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• When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Running, Hard Work, Ideas

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

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• Scotch whisky is made from barley and the morning dew on angel's nipples.

  Warren Ellis

  Morning, Angel, Scotch

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• Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.

  Winston Churchill

  Speech, Whiskey, Havens

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• I'm a very smart guy. I haven't a feeling or a scruple in the world. All I have the itch for is money. I am so money greedy that for twenty-five bucks a day and expenses, mostly gasoline and whisky, I do my thinking myself, what there is of it; I risk my whole future, the hatred of the cops . . . I dodge bullets and eat saps, and say thank you very much, if you have any more trouble, I hope you'll think of me, I'll just leave one of my cards in case anything comes up.

  Raymond Chandler

  Smart, Thinking, Hatred

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• There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.

  Raymond Chandler

  Drinking, Alcohol, Whiskey

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• After doing extensive research, I can definitely tell you that single malt whiskies are good to drink.

  Iain Banks

  Research, Drink, Malt

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