gin quotes

Sitting as huge as Asia, seismic with laughter, Gin and chicken helpless in her Irish hand.

- George Granville Barker
  'To My Mother'.

And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and fora rockof offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 8:14.

   A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.

-JohnWilliam Cheever
  Collected in The Journals,'The Sixties'.

The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived.

- Bernard DeVoto
  In Harper's Magazine, Dec.

Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.

-JuliusJ Epstein
  Humphrey Bogart as Rick in Casablanca (with Philip G Epstein and Howard Koch).

And the sooner the tea's out of the way, the sooner we can get out the gin, eh?

- Henry Reed
  The Private Life of HildaTablet, radio play.

Gin by pailfuls, wine in rivers, Dash the window-glass to shivers! For three wild lads were we, brave boys, And three wild lads were we; Thou on the land, and I on the sand, And Jack on the gallows-tree!

- Sir Walter Scott
  Guy Mannering, ch.34.

Gin was mother's milk to her.

- George Bernard Shaw
  Eliza, speaking of herAunt. Pygmalion, act 3.