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Quotes About Liquor

The whole place reeked of tharra.
~ Tarquin Hall
No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. In the first place brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking can do for him.
~ James Boswell
Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
~ Samuel Johnson
Some folks just have to have the liquor, times like these." He eyed a policeman on the corner. "That's what the cops here seem to think, in this city, at any rate. I've never seen a drunk arrested yet, not just for being drunk.
~ Nevil Shute
it was said to be 'hardly in the power of liquor to affect Dr Webster's understanding or his limbs'. Yet no one was more sober when it came to calculations of life expectancy.
~ Niall Ferguson
Even though Jäger tastes like if you put a gun to a licorice plant and threatened it until it peed.
~ Cathy Yardley
When a man has been intemperate so long that shame no longer paints a blush upon his cheek, his liquor generally does it instead.
~ George D. Prentice
Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an' death's the other.
~ Tennessee Williams
Since much of American taxes prior to 1763 went to support the local clergy, one humorist suggested the opportunity to vote on that. If the minister was turned out, he could open a tavern and preach to his customers if he served them liquor.
~ Colin G. Calloway
There was another group of prisoners who got liquor supplied in almost unlimited quantities by the SS: these were the men who were employed in the gas chambers and crematoriums, and who knew very well that one day they would be relieved by a new shift of men, and that they would have to leave their enforced role of executioner and become victims themselves.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Was this what it felt like to do something unselfish? The sensation was weird. Uncomfortable, yet… not awful. Like liquor that tasted like shit but went down smooth.
~ Larissa Ione
Let hunger sharpen your awareness. Abstain liquor and frivolous recreation, which dull the mind and weaken the body.
~ Laura Joh Rowland
I always felt that way about the South, that beneath the smiles and southern hospitality and politeness were a lot of guns and liquor and secrets. A lot of those secrets ended up floating
~ James McBride
I always felt that way about the South, that beneath the smiles and southern hospitality and politeness were a lot of guns and liquor and secrets.
~ James McBride
After that, I picked up a pint of Jameson at the liquor store to go with the coffee. A.A. and I called it Irish Ritalin.
~ James Patterson
Western took a drink and passed the bottle back. Borman drank. The brown liquor boiled in the bottle. When he lowered it the bottle was a third gone and his eyes were watering. He wiped his mouth and held the bottle out. Hell, Western. I've drunk worse liquor than that. Here.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Against inebriation – and for drunkenness! Burn down the liquor stores, and replace them with playgrounds!
~ Crimethinc
The current antidote for rural despair, he thought, crack cocaine and liquor.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
Es ist ein Brauch von Alters her: Wer Sorgen hat, hat auch Likör. Doch wer zufrieden und vergnügt, sieht zu, daß er auch welchen kriegt.
~ H.C. Wilhelm Busch
the body was revealed to be lying wholly perfect in a liquor resembling mushroom catchup. Someone tasted the preservative and found that it tasted like 'catchup, and of the pickle of Spanish olives.
~ Harold Schechter
Elinor looked at him with greater astonishment than ever. She began to think that he must be in liquor...
~ Jane Austen
I love feeling like I'm inhabiting the body of a ninja, like I could rob a liquor store with my bare hands if I wanted to.
~ Ronda Rousey
Doo never actually made moonshine, but he hauled about an ocean of it.
~ Loretta Lynn
Cocktail is a stimulating liquor, composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water and bitters. It is vulgarly called a bittered sling and is supposed to be an excellent electioneering potion, in as much as it renders the heart stout and bold, at the same time that it fuddles the head…It is said also, to be of great use to a Democratic candidate because, a person having swallowed a glass of it, is ready to swallow anything else.
~ Dale DeGroff