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Quotes About Whiskey

I put the doped whiskey down where he could reach it, if his hands hadn't been strapped.
~ Raymond Chandler
bottle of rye out
~ Raymond Chandler
The echo of the first shot, like the first sip of whiskey, burning...
~ Richard K. Morgan
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Yes, it's true I once knocked out a horse. It was at a fiesta in my mother's home town of Guarare. Someone bet me a bottle of whiskey that I couldn't do it
~ Roberto Duran
The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
~ James Joyce
I'm all in favor of getting grants for musicians. Or any other good brand of Scotch.
~ Pepper Adams
There ain't no justice, laws of nature rule this land. Better hide your horses, bury your whiskey.
~ Toby Keith
We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Some seeksolace inwhiskey, I drown mysorrowsin ink.
~ Noor Shirazie
Ya got cigarettes?" she asks. "Yes, " I say, "I got cigarettes." "Matches?" she asks."Enough to burn Rome." "Whiskey?""Enough whiskey for a Mississippi River of pain." "You drunk?" "Not yet.
~ Charles Bukowski
If there's one thing I never mistook about it's the sound of a whiskey bottle lid being screwed off. There ain't nothing else in the world sounds like it.
~ William Gay
It ain't never far to a bootlegger
~ William Gay
The thing I love about a blue drink is that it isn't pretending to be anything other than a prissy, made-up concoction for people who can't drink their whiskey straight. A cocktail with the courage of its lack of conviction.
~ William Lashner
My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
~ Igor Stravinsky
God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world.
~ Ed McMahon
God created whiskey to keep the Irish from taking over the world.
~ Kinky Friedman
For God's sake bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country.
~ Reginald Maudling
You pretty much can't get away from bacon or whiskey in the South. Put a doughnut in it and you'd be good to go.
~ Hillary Scott
Trusting the government with money creation is like trusting a drunk with a whiskey factory.
~ Doug Casey
Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime-it's not very scientific, but it helps.
~ Alexander Fleming
Whiskey's to tough, Champagne costs too much, Vodka puts my mouth in gear. I hope this refrain, Will help me explain, As a matter of fact, I like beer.
~ Tom T. Hall
In those days the best painkiller was ice; it wasn't addictive and it was particularly effective if you poured some whiskey over it.
~ George Burns
The thing I like about Irish whiskey is that the more you drink the smoother it goes down. Of course that's probably true of antifreeze as well, but illusion is nearly all we have.
~ Robert B. Parker, Valediction