Quotes About Liquor

I have to drive." "Two beers? Come on, you're not that big a girl." But he was. Ingrid could drink hard liquor for hours and show no signs of it. Simon had two beers and tried to French-kiss a light socket.

He was out of his mind," said Atticus. "Don't like to contradict you, Mr. Finch—wasn't crazy—mean as hell. Low-down skunk with enough liquor in him to make him brave enough to kill children. He'd never have met you face to face.

She said: "The question, gentlemen—is one of liquor; You ask for guidance—this is my reply: He says, when tipsy, he would thrash and kick her, Let's make him tipsy, gentlemen, and try!" Alexandra was not amused. She was extremely annoyed.

When Alabama seceded from the Union on January 11, 1861, Winston County seceded from Alabama, and every child in Maycomb County knew it.) North Alabama was full of Liquor Interests, Big Mules, steel companies, Republicans, professors, and other persons of no background.

Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.

Prohibition may be the greatest gift any government ever gave its citizens. A barrel of beer cost $4 to make and sold for $55. A case of spiritous liquor cost $20 to produce and earned $90--and all this without taxes.

loony hillbillies destabilized by gross quantities of impure corn liquor and generations of profoundly unbiblical sex;

Mendacity is a system that we live in, declares Brick. Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.

You are an educated man, sir," he said. "Possibly you have read Turgenev? He wrote a novel. Fumée. Smoke. That was his best title. Everything in Russia ends in smoke — like my poor manuscripts." The waiter placed our cognac on the table; I handed my friend his glass. "Everything in Russia," he repeated. "In smoke, like my poor manuscripts, or in liquor, like myself.

He grinned, then winked at her as the waiter finally stepped over. "You wanted—" the waiter began. "Liquor," Wayne said. "Would you care to be a little more specific, sir?" "Lots of liquor.

as [ale] is the liquor of modern historians,..., it ought likewise to be the potation of their readers, since every book ought to be read with the same spirit and in the same manner as it is writ.

Now that part of his head which nature designed for the reservoir of drink being very shallow, a small quantity of liquor overflowed it and opened the sluices of his heart, so that all the secrets there deposited run out.

As for my landlord, drinking was his trade; and the liquor had no more effect on him than it had on any other vessel in his house. The

Liquor and love rescue the cloudy sense banish its despair give it a home.

He had liquor in about any color you could ask for, except the one I liked best, standard whiskey brown. I told him no thanks. He poured himself three fingers of emerald green and added equal portions of lemon yellow, sky blue, and sunset orange. I half expected him to stir it with a' Crayola.

Simple Sours contain a base liquor, citrus juice, and a nonalcoholic sweetening agent, such as simple syrup, grenadine, or orgeat syrup.

Certain dives on New York City's Bowery offered as much as you could drink from a rubber hose connected to a liquor barrel until you had to stop to take a breath; this would set you back a mere three cents. For two cents more, however, certain places would provide a shot of whiskey and a woman to go with it.

Some people, when desperate, retreat to pills or hard liquor. I nap.

The very term "skid row" comes from Seattle's skid road, a logging skid at the center of a large liquor and prostitution industry.)

Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, 'Please, I used to pull the same trick. There'd be an intervention, I'd make a big show of pouring out the liquor and then there was a case under the floorboards.'

It may be true that death is a big empty hole and that sorrow is to know just how empty that hole is, but it's only true if you are sober. If you have liquor, then you can fill the hole up with all the beautiful thoughts you can think of and all the nice words you can find. You can fill it up all the way to the brim and place a stone on it afterward.

Ays felt as if he was made of glass, some brittle substance, and the laughter cracked him. He felt the power of his skill drain out from his body, out like thin, rancid liquour down through the cracks on the floor.

Oh dear, Laurence said; he felt rather awkward explaining that the main attraction was the abundance of harbor prostitutes and cheap liquor. Well, a city has a great many people in it, and thus various entertainments provided in close proximity, he tried. Do you mean such as more books? Temeraire said.

as though the magic had burned off like the liquor on a pudding.