Bourbon Quotes - Page 2

• Well I ain't seen my baby since I don't know when,
  I've been drinking bourbon whiskey, scotch and gin
  Gonna get high man I'm gonna get loose,
  Need me a triple shot of that juice
  Gonna get drunk don't you have no fear
  I want one bourbon, one scotch and one beer
  One bourbon, one scotch, one beer.

  John Lee Hooker

  Baby, Drinking, Beer

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• I'm old school. I was taught that ice was for bourbon, not for your arm.

  Rod Beck

  School, Ice, Arms

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

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Character, Matter, Taste

  "De la restauration et de la monarchie élective". Book by François-René de Chateaubriand, 1831.

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• Sitting up all night would be pointless if somebody you loved wasn't sitting up with you, picking out music to play and helping you kill the bourbon. Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Loneliness, Rain, Kids

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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• Over the years, he [Everett Dirksen] developed a style of infinitely subtle fustian, whose effect can still be remotely approximated by sipping twelve-year-old bourbon, straight, while reading Dickens aloud, in a sort of sepulchral purr.

  Lance Morrow

  Reading, Government, Years

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• (Carmine Crocco) A farm-labourer and cowherd, had joined the Bourbon army, killed a comrade in a brawl, deserted and lived as an outlaw for ten years. He joined the liberal insurgents in 1860 in the hope of an amnesty for his past offences, and subsequently became the most formidable guerilla chief and leader of men on the Bourbon side.

  Eric Hobsbawm

  Army, Past, Men

  Eric J. Hobsbawm (1985). “Bandits”

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• Here's to new beginnings," Stuart says and raises his bourbon. I nod, sort of wanting to tell him that all beginnings are new.

  Kathryn Stockett

  New Beginnings, Raises

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• Let us candidly admit that there are shameful blemishes on the American past, of which the worst by far is rum. Nevertheless, we have improved man's lot and enriched his civilization with rye, bourbon and the Martini cocktail. In all history has any other nation done so much?

  Bernard DeVoto

  Food, Past, Men

  Bernard DeVoto (2010). “The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto”, p.11, Tin House Books

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• In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of the Eurasian steppes. In spiritual matters, we emulated the braying intolerance of our archenemies, the Shite fundamentalists.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Spiritual, War, Matter

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• I used to go to Bourbon Street when I was a kid and there would be club after club after club of people who were around when the music started. I mean these are legendary, maybe not so well known, but legendary musicians.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Mean, Kids, People

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• Bourbon Street is like playing, a tourist, you know? It's just a tourist attraction ... those musicians on Bourbon Street, they play all day. They might start at 12 noon and end at 3 in the morning, like, it's like sets, like a job. You go play, take a break, play again, take a break, then later on that night, the club gets busier, then you play some more. There's pride. They're a group of great musicians- and they're holding it down.

  Troy Andrews

  Morning, Jobs, Pride

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• I wanna get drunk 'til I'm off my mind. One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer.

  John Lee Hooker

  Beer, Scotch, Drunk

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• Our faith in democracy, personal freedoms and human 'rights', and the other comforting prescriptions of the humanist liberal credo stem from the supremacy of maritime over territorial power. Pragmatists may deplore this as crude determinism, as another vain attempt to construct a general theory of history. They should reflect on the sort of political philosophy and structures we might now adhere to had the Habsburgs, Bourbons, Bonaparte, Hitler, Stalin or his heirs prevailed in the titanic world struggles of the past four centuries.

  Peter Padfield

  Philosophy, Struggle, Past

  Peter Padfield (2000). “Maritime Supremacy & the Opening of the Western Mind: Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World”, Overlook Books

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• We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners.

  John Shelton Reed

  Country, School, Scotch

  John Shelton Reed (1993). “My Tears Spoiled My Aim, and Other Reflections on Southern Culture”, p.15, University of Missouri Press

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• I wouldn't want them [kids] to raid my liquor cabinet and glug down my bourbon either.

  Cheech Marin

  Kids, Want, Cabinets

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Take Texas the way Texas takes bourbon. Straight. It goes down easier.

  Edna Ferber

  Texas, Way, Easier

  Edna Ferber (1952). “Giant”

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• I was drinking a lot of bourbon. I was miserable. I was starting to get work, but it wasn't remotely satisfying. It was garbage compared to the theater I was doing.

  Nick Offerman

  Drinking, Garbage, Miserable

  Interview with Elina Shatkin, www.believermag.com. October 2012.

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• Louis XIV was very frank and sincere when he said: I am the State. The modern statist is modest. He says: I am the servant of the State; but, he implies, the State is God. You could revolt against a Bourbon king, and the French did it. This was, of course, a struggle of man against man. But you cannot revolt against the god State and against his humble handy man, the bureaucrat.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Kings, Struggle, Humble

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• I fell in love with the place! You know, the people, the bourbon, the music... it's in the air. It's something you can't describe on camera.

  Brad Pitt

  New Orleans, Air, People

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• I go to Las Vegas--or at least I went to Las Vegas--because even though I knew everything that was sinister, calculating, and evil about it, I loved Las Vegas. Only in Vegas could I dare to fantasize that I was a Friend of Frank. Or that I was throwing the dice at Dino's favorite table. Or that I might luck out and sip bourbon with Rickles after his last lounge show. The D.I. oozed that kind of heady fantasy.

  Marc Cooper

  Vegas, Evil, Luck

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• One of the best moments Ive ever had in New Orleans is seeing Bourbon Street filled on a weekend night not long ago. Just watching the city breathe again.

  Ray Nagin

  Weekend, Night, New Orleans

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• a greater evil than the restoration of the Bourbons to the world in general, and England in particular, can hardly happen.

  Charles James Fox

  Evil, Restoration, World

  Charles James Fox (1970). “Memorials and correspondence”

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• That's country music for you - bourbon and the Bible.

  Dave Haywood

  Country

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• There was a basket at her feet. She reached into it and lifted out the head of a young woman, a marquise. She wore Bourbon white to her death, but wears the tricolor now - white cheeks, blue lips, red dripping from her neck. Long live the revolution.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Blue, White, Feet

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.190, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I like people, I really do. I like meeting people. But most of the time I would rather be at home reading a book than reading in a bookstore. It's a performance, and it ends up being all right, and then you have a nice shot of bourbon afterwards, and it's all good. I want to please people. I want to be nice. I want to be liked. As a result I say yes to everything. But it takes a lot of vital energy out of me.

  Lauren Groff

  Nice, Book, Reading

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