40 Whiskey Quotes to Sip With Your Favorite Drink

1. “Whiskey, like a beautiful woman, demands appreciation. You gaze first, then it's time to drink.” - Haruki Murakami

2. “Whisky is liquid sunshine.” - George Bernard Shaw

3. "There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others." - Raymond Chandler

4. “Three things in the world banish sorrow⁠—love and whiskey and music.” - Herminie Templeton Kavanagh

5. “Life is sweet when the whisky's sour.” - Jazz Egger

6. "There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey, and the Book of Common Prayer." - Elizabeth Gilbert

7. "Whisky making is an act of cooperation between the blessings of nature and the wisdom of man." - Masataka Taketsuru

8. "What whiskey will not cure, there is no cure for." - Irish proverb

9. “The light music of whiskey falling into a glass - an agreeable interlude.” - James Joyce

10. “The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.” – Winston Churchill

1. “I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.” - H.L. Mencken

2. "Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey" - Ernest Hemingway

3. "Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets." - Logan Pearsall Smith

4. “I'm going to drink till when I cut myself whiskey runs out. What's the good of blood when you can have whiskey?” - John Dos Passos

5. “Great fury, like great whiskey, requires long fermentation.” - Truman Capote

6. "I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it." - Robert E. Lee

7. "Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals." - Abraham Lincoln

8. "I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other." - Ava Gardner

9. "I sit here in this chair, I pour myself some whiskey, and watch my troubles vanish into the air." - Randy Newman

10. "I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis." - Humphrey Bogart

11. "Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him." - Mark Twain

12. "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you then the whiskey must." - Carl Sandburg

13. "Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities." - Lord Dunsany

14. "My idea of working out is drinking whiskey - instead of beer." - Travis Fimmel

15. "You can steal my women but don't play with my whiskey." - Charles Bukowski

1. “Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.” - Mark Twain

2. "Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore always carry a small snake." - W. C. Fields

3. “Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast.” - Compton Mackenzie

4. "God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world." - Ed McMahon

5. "It is true that whisky improves with age. The older I get, the more I like it." - Ronnie Corbett

6. "You can't find the answers on the bottom of a whiskey glass, but if you look hard enough you'll forget the questions." - George Patterson

7. "Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over." - Mark Twain

8. "Whiskey is by far the most popular of all remedies that won't cure a cold." - Jerry Vale

9. "Happiness is having a rare steak, a bottle of whiskey, and a dog to eat the rare steak." - Johnny Carson

10. "I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four." - Joel Rosenberg

11. "I've been on the whisky diet - I've already lost three days!" - Tommy Cooper

12. "Whiskey and beer are all right in their place, but their place is in hell." - Billy Sunday

13. "I like my whisky old and my women young." - Errol Flynn

14. "No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single." - H. L. Mencken

15. "Stop your nonsense and drink your whiskey!" - Zachary Taylor