whisky quotes

F and W gang thegither, Tak aff your dram!

- Robert Burns
REEDOMHISKY1786  'The  Author's Earnest Cry and Prayer, to the Right Honorable and Honorable, the Scotch Representatives in the House of Commons', stanza 30.

Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.

-Truman Capote
  Music for Chameleons,'Handcarved Coffins'.

So bye, bye, Miss American Pie, Drove my Chevy to the levee But the levee was dry. Them good old boys was drinkin' whiskeyand rye Singin' 'This'll be the day that I die.'

- Don McLean
  'American Pie'.

Some people read too much: the bibliobuli†who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through the most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.

- H(enry) L(ouis) Mencken
'Minority Report'. Collected in Notebooks (1956).

Selwyn MacGregor, thenicest boy who evercommitted the sin of whisky.

- Dame Muriel Sarah ne  e  Camberg Spark
  The Go-Away Bird,'A SadTale's Best forWinter'.

   After supper Pap took the jug, and said he had enough whisky there for two drunks and one delirium tremens.

- Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens Twain
  TheAdventures of Huckleberry Finn, ch.6.

Everybody who tells you how to act has whisky on their breath.

-John Hoyer Updike
  Rabbit, Run.

There aren't many left like him nowadays, what with education and whisky the price it is.

- Evelyn Arthur StJohn Waugh
  Decline and Fall, pt.1, ch.7.

He was a practical electrician but fond of whisky, a heavy, red-haired brute with irregular teeth.He doubted the existence of the Deity but accepted Carnot's cycle, and he had read Shakespeare and found him weak in chemistry.

- H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells
  'The Lord of the Dynamos'.