Whisky Quotes

“Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.”
― Françoise Sagan

“The light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.”
― James Joyce, Dubliners

“Scotch whisky is made from barley and the morning dew on angel's nipples.”
― Warren Ellis

“Whisky is liquid sunshine.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“All worries are less with wine.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“A dead body reminds me a bit of a bottle of whisky. If you drop the bottle and it cracks, what’s inside pours out. It’s only natural.”
― Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale

“Willy's Definitive Dram Definition

Willy, one of the guys at the distillery, comes up with what Oliver and I agree is the best definition of what a 'dram' actually is: 'A measure of whisky that is pleasing to both guest and host.”
― Iain Banks, Raw Spirit

“Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel amongst the bridge players and swillers of easy-come-by whisky. My chest got me out of active service and into guilt, as I wrote two, or is it three of the novels for which I am now acclaimed.”
― Patrick White, Three Uneasy Pieces

“Banksie, hi. What you up to?'
'Well, I'm going to be writing a book about whisky.'
'You're what?'
'I'm going to be writing a book about whisky. I've been, umm, you know, commissioned. To write a book about it. About whisky. Malt whisky, actually.'
'You're writing a book about whisky?'
'Yeah. It means I have to go all over Scotland, driving mostly, but taking other types of transport - ferries, planes, trains, that sort of thing - visiting distilleries and tasting malt whisky. With expenses, obviously.'
'You serious?'
'Course I'm serious!'
'Really?'
'Oh yeah.'
'... Do you need any help with this?”
― Iain Banks, Raw Spirit

“Ah," Anselmo took the cup, put his head back and let it run down his throat. He looked at Maria standing holding the bottle and winked at her, tears coming from both his eyes. "That," he said. "That." Then he licked his lips. "That is what kills the worm that haunts us.”
― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

“Fortune, if thou’ll but gie me still
Hale breeks, a scone, an whisky gill,
An’ rowth o’ rhyme to rave at will,
Take a’ the rest,
An’ deal’t about as thy blind skill
Directs thee best.”
― Robert Burns, Selected Poems

“I am worn, down to the raw nub of my soul.
Now is the time, o bitter beer, soothe my spirit;
smooth mouth of whisky, tell me lies of truth;
but better still, sweet wine, be harbinger of deep and dreamless sleep....”
― Keri Hulme, The Bone People

“   "Will you, as they say, say when?" he asked, standing at Eustace's elbow with the whisky decanter and a glass.
   "Stop, stop I've got to sit up and do some work when I get back."
   "Work, work, the word is always on your lips, Eustace, but I never see you doing any, I'm glad to say."
   "I put it away when you come, of course," said Eustace. "I take it out when Hilda comes."
   "I think I shall send for her."   ”
― L.P. Hartley, Eustace and Hilda

“He sat down by his table and began to think things out. He told himself he was not drunk at all, but that he had taken an unusual amount of whisky, which seemed to produce much the same effect as intoxication.”
― E.F. Benson, Miss Mapp

“Subí a mi habitación y me serví un whisky. Gran error: al primer trago me entraron arcadas. Me estaba haciendo viejo para aquellos trotes.”
― Craig Russell, The Long Glasgow Kiss

“You... you were telling me about your diet?"
"Well, mostly I was raised on milk, potatoes, dulse, fish-"
"I beg your pardon, did you say 'dulse'? What is that, exactly?"
"A kind of seaweed," MacRae said. "As a lad, it was my job to go out at low tide before supper and cut handfuls of it from the rocks on shore." He opened a cupboard to view a small store of cooking supplies and utensils. "It goes in soup, or you can eat it raw." He glanced at her over his shoulder, amusement touching his lips as he saw her expression.
"Seaweed is the secret to good health?" Merritt asked dubiously.
"No, milady, that would be whisky. My men and I take a wee dram every day." Seeing her perplexed expression, her continued, "Whisky is the water of life. It warms the blood, keeps the spirits calm, and the heart strong."
"I wish I liked whisky, but I'm afraid it's not to my taste."
MacRae looked appalled. "Was it Scotch whisky?"
"I'm not sure," she said. "Whatever it was, it set my tongue on fire."
"It was no' Scotch, then, but rotgut. Islay whisky starts as hot as the devil's whisper... but then the flavors come through, and it might taste of cinnamon, or peat, or honeycomb fresh from the hive. It could taste of a long-ago walk on a winter's eve... or a kiss you once stole from your sweetheart in the hayloft. Whisky is yesterday's rain, distilled with barley into a vapor that rises like a will-o'-the-wisp, then set to bide its time in casks of good oak." His voice had turned as soft as a curl of smoke. "Someday we'll have a whisky, you and I. We'll toast health to our friends and peace to our foes... and we'll drink to the loves lost to time's perishing, as well as those yet to come.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Disguise

“This is where stiff whisky really does make all the difference. No matter how fucked up the world may get, a good dram will make it at least slightly more bearable.

And A-flippin-men to that.”
― Iain Banks, Raw Spirit

“Also I wanted the whisky for itself, because I loved the taste of it and because, being as happy as I could be, it made me feel even better.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Green Hills of Africa

“In the years that followed I worked as much as I could filling my empty hours with theatres and alcohol. I found I had grown to like the taste. Maybe that was a lie. I never liked the taste except maybe of whisky. I drank it none the less and it numbed any feelings I had for a time. In my sober hours I was introduced to ‘The Order of the Red Dragon’ a little at a time.”
― LEONORA MORRISON, Red Velvet Rose

“I went back to my car again and sat and sat. The top dripped on my knees and my stomach burned from the whiskey. No more cars came up the hill. No lights went on in the house before which I was parked. It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

“My Chicago friends were amazed at my admiration. They seemed to take a real pride in their gangsters and in the wickedness of their city. I have now been there three times, and, while my view remains the same, it may reveal the danger of superficial impressions. Just as English visitors who, seeing no blood running in the gutters of Moscow streets, return full of praise for the Soviet paradise, so I, feeling no sawn-off gun against my ribs and hearing no shots, see in Chicago only the most beautiful and the best of cities.”
― Robert Bruce-Lockhart

“Apart from an early antipathy to capitalism, he had seen something of the evil effects of drink in big cities, and on his first visit to Chicago he had shocked the local Press by comparing the city to hell. Urged by the journalists to give himself more time to see the city before condemning it, he requested them to come back in three days. When they returned and asked him what his views now were, he lifted his hat and said solemnly: 'I apologise to hell.”
― Robert Bruce-Lockhart, Scotch: The Whisky of Scotland in Fact and Story

“Toddy, excellent both as a cure for cold and as an elixir of life, requires careful preparation. The ingredients are sugar, boiling water and preferably a well-matured malt whisky. First, you heat the tumbler with warm water and, when the glass has reached a comfortable temperature, you pour out the water. Then into the empty glass you put two or three squares of loaf-sugar and add enough boiling water - a wine glass should suffice - to dissolve the sugar. Then add a wineglass of whisky and stir with a silver spoon; then another wineglass of boiling water, and finally to crown this liquid edifice top it with another wineglass of whisky. Stir again and drink the contents with slow and loving care. As a cure for cold, take your toddy to bed, put one bowler hat at the foot, and drink until you see two.”
― Robert Bruce-Lockhart, Scotch: The Whisky of Scotland in Fact and Story

“This is the ordinary Scottish recipe for toddy; an alternative interpretation is that of my old Russian friend, the late M Baleiev, who founded the famouse Chauve-Souris cabaret show in Moscow and, after the Russian revolution, brought it to London and New York. Here is his version: 'First you put in whisky to make it strong; then you add water to make it weak; next you put in lemon to make it sour, then you put in sugar to make it sweet. You put in more whisky to kill the water. Then you say "Here's to you" - and you drink it yourself.”
― Robert Bruce-Lockhart, Scotch: The Whisky of Scotland in Fact and Story

“Nunca provei gasolina, mas estou certo que o sabor é o mesmo daquele whiskey caseiro laociano. Porque chamam àquilo 'whiskey' será sempre para mim um mistério.”
― António Pedro Moreira, Daqui Ali - De Portugal a Singapura Por Terra

“أموت من أجل حملة تهريب، زجاجات ويسكي حقيرة كافية لفصل رأسي عن جسدي. جسدي المهدَّد بالموت هنا أو الموت هناك، لكنّ الموت هنا رخيص ومكلِّف،. عليك دفع ثمن الرصاصة وخرقة الكفن، مسامير النعش، وأجرة الحفّار والمصلين!”
― ناصر الظفيري, أبيض يتوحش

“Whisky can indeed be used as an antiseptic, but I'd recommend it only as a last resort, since pouring it into an open wound could damage exposed tissue. I'd much rather pour it into a glass and drink it neat over ice."
"You like whisky?" Keir asked.
"Love it," came her prompt reply, which Merritt could see had earned his instant liking.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Disguise

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

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“women are valued like milk,
but men are core like whisky.”
― Dev Preetham Pagidipati