Whiskey Quotes - Page 8

• She spilled whiskey on her shirt, she gon have to get it cleaned. She been going way to hard, someone has to intervene.

  Drake

  Party, Drinking, Humble

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• It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because they are good for him, and when they are good for other people as well they are thought virtuous: if he finds pleasure in helping others he is benevolent; if he finds pleasure in working for society he is public-spirited; but it is for your private pleasure that you give twopence to a beggar as much as it is for my private pleasure that I drink another whiskey and soda. I, less of a humbug than you, neither applaud myself for my pleasure nor demand your admiration.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Helping Others, Men, Practice

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• I'll tell you the truth; I had a double brandy before the game but, before, it used to be four bottles of whisky. Not any more. I was fine. I had a glass of wine after the game. But it was just a mouthful.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Wine, Glasses, Games

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• People have the right to ask questions and dig deep when you're hurting people and things around you, but when I haven't talked to anyone in years, and every single article I see is dope this, junkie that, whiskey this- that ain't my title...my bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and talents are my title.

  Layne Staley

  Hurt, Dope, Years

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• Well I was born a rambler friends, and I intend to die that way. It could be twenty years from now it could be most any day. But if there ain't no whiskey and wimen lord behind those heavenly doors, I'm gonna take my chances down below and of that you can be sure.

  Townes Van Zandt

  Doors, Years, Twenties

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• I can't drink whiskey like I used to back then, that's for sure.

  Sebastian Bach

  Drink, Used, I Can

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• I will never, ever drink whiskey again. From now on, it's strictly sherry.

  Libba Bray

  Drink, Sherry

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• It is a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructible in our wake and, at the same time, are drawn to all the things that kill: whiskey and cigarettes, unprotected sex, and deep-fried burritos.

  Ariel Gore

  Sex, Writing, Burritos

  Ariel Gore (2007). “How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead: Your Words in Print and Your Name in Lights”, p.41, Three Rivers Press

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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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• The giant imaginary bottle of whiskey is with me.

  Rocko

  Giants, Bottles, Imaginary

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• I say, when Mercury arrives, we just pretend we’re not here.” Lawe tipped back his whiskey and swallowed in a single drink. “Stay real quiet. Don’t make eye contact.” They all nodded.

  Lora Leigh

  Real, Eye, Mercury

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• But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced fly-fishing, I became too stink in’ proud to use the title. I won’t touch watered whiskey and I take no pride in watered-down degrees.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Pride, Fishing, Dancing

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• Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We've lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!

  Bertolt Brecht

  Moon, Bye, Alabama

  Bertolt Brecht (1990). “Brecht Collected Plays: The Rise and Fall of the City of Mohagony and the Seven Deadly Sins :”, Methuen

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• You sit back in the darkness, nursing your beer, breathing in that ineffable aroma of the old-time saloon: dark wood, spilled beer, good cigars, and ancient whiskey - the sacred incense of the drinking man.

  Bruce Aidells

  Humorous, Drinking, Nursing

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The stains could be seen only in the sunlight, so Ruth was never really aware of them until later, when she would stop at an outdoor cafe for a cup of coffee, and look down at her skirt and see the dark traces of spilled vodka or whiskey. The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her; she had noted in her journal: 'booze affects material as it does people'.

  Alice Sebold

  Coffee, Dark, People

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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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• ...I was tired of men. Hanging in doorways, standing too close, their smell of beer or fifteen-year-old whiskey. Men who didn't come to the emergency room with you, men who left on Christmas Eve. Men who slammed the security gates, who made you love them and then changed their minds.

  Janet Fitch

  Tired, Beer, Men

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.184, Hachette UK

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• They're a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It's said that without whiskey to soak and soften the world, they'd kill themselves. (Irish)

  John Steinbeck

  Dark, Past, Deserving It

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.143, Penguin

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