100 Whisky Quotes

Following is our list of whisky quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about scotch whisky.

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Famous Whisky Quotes

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

The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter. — Samuel Beckett

I like the Whisky old an the women young — Errol Flynn

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

Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over. — Mark Twain

Champagne's funny stuff. I'm used to whiskey. Whiskey is a slap on the back, and champagne's a heavy mist before my eyes. — James Stewart

Stop your nonsense and drink your whiskey! — Zachary Taylor

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

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

What whiskey will not cure, there is no cure for. — Proverbs

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

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

My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey. — Igor Stravinsky

I'm a beer man. I tried to drink whiskey and Scotch but I don't get it. It smells like a girl who didn't shower and just splashed a lot of perfume on. — Mads Mikkelsen

I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it. — General Robert E. Lee

Short Whisky Quotes

  • I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch. — George Burns
  • Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough. — Mark Twain
  • There are two things a Highlander likes naked, and the other one is Malt Whisky — R. H. Bruce Lockhart
  • Happiness is having a rare steak, a bottle of whiskey, and a dog to eat the rare steak. — Johnny Carson
  • The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude. — James Joyce
  • You know these love letters mix with whisky, just don't light a match when you kiss me. — Jon Bon Jovi
  • Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast. — Compton Mackenzie
  • Whiskey, like a beautiful woman, demands appreciation. You gaze first, then it's time to drink. — Haruki Murakami
  • When life hands you lemons, make whisky sours. — W. C. Fields

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Drink Whisky Quotes

Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested. — Hunter S. Thompson

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

May the enemies of Ireland never eat bread nor drink whisky, but be tormented with itching without benefit of scratching. — Irish Proverbs

That's Delhi. When life gets too much for you all you need to do is to spend an hour at Nigambodh Ghat,watch the dead being put to flames and hear their kin wail for them. Then come home and down a couple of pegs of whisky. In Delhi, death and drink make life worth living. — Khushwant Singh

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

There is no such thing as a bad whisky. Some whiskies just happen to be better than others. — William Faulkner

The proper drinking of Scotch whisky is more than indulgence: it is a toast to civilization, a tribute to the continuity of culture, a manifesto of man's determination to use the resources of nature to refresh mind and body and enjoy to the full the senses with which he has been endowed. — David Daiches

When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky? — Ernest Hemingway

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

I like my whisky old and my women young. — Errol Flynn

Scotch Whisky Quotes

I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon. — Hugo Black

An appreciation of prose is learned, not instinctive. It is an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky. — Abigail Padgett

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

Scotch Whisky is about the only thing left that is guaranteed to bring comfort to mankind. — Robert Boothby, Baron Boothby

Whiskey Quotes

There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't. — William Faulkner

As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn't in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics. — Willie Nelson

Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world. - Wilhelm II

Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world. — Wilhelm II

They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games. — Casey Stengel

Good friends, good whiskey, and good lovin', I want to thank you Lord. — Hank Williams, Jr.

Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime-it's not very scientific, but it helps. — Alexander Fleming

Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils. — Carry Nation

Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils. — Carrie Nation

It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics dope and all of that stuff. It is a thousand times better than whiskey. It is an assistant and a friend. — Louis Armstrong

No man who drank or smoked could ever come nearer to me than the telephone. I'd say, I won't let you - you nicotine-soaked, beer-besmeared, whiskey-greased, red-eyed devil - talk to me face to face. — Carrie Nation

Scotch Whiskey Quotes

I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it. — Mark Twain

My family was a bunch of drunks. When I was six I came up missing, they put my picture on a bottle of scotch. — Rodney Dangerfield

Wild Turkey whiskey and Philip Morris cigarettes are essential to the maintenance of human life! — Herb Kelleher

Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotch man happy! — Samuel Johnson

Awesome! I'd just bullied Jesus into doing a shot with me. Nobody would ever believe it, but I didn't care. We ordered the insanely expensive stuff, seventy-five dollars for a 1.75-ounce pour of premium Irish whiskey, because if you're doing a shot with Jesus, you don't buy him scotch. — Kevin Hearne

If you take a scotch whiskey and distill out the alcohol, what is left has an amazing taste to it and can be used as a flavoring for a dessert. — Nathan Myhrvold

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More Whisky Quotes

I wanted to play piano in restaurants in the south of France. I went there on holiday once and I saw this guy playing in an old tuxedo. He was all disheveled, with a whisky glass on the piano. I thought that was the coolest thing. So what's happened to me with 'Twilight' isn't really what I'd planned. — Robert Pattinson

Cuban cigars are an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky. If you're not used to them, you'll get a headache, you'll find them much too strong. But to a cigar connoisseur, a longtime smoker, if you have a well-made, well-aged one, there is nothing like a Cuban cigar. Getting them is the ultimate mission; any cigar lover would do anything — Marvin Shanken

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky. — William Faulkner

Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of another... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results. — Harper Lee

It is one of the most hauntingly beautiful places in the world, the history is fascinating, the men are handsome and the whisky is delicious. But don't eat the macaroni pies. — J. K. Rowling

The feminine in the man is the sugar in the whisky. The masculine in the woman is the yeast in the bread. Without these ingredients the result is flat, without tang or flavor. — Edna Ferber

I'll tell you the truth; I had a double brandy before the game but, before, it used to be four bottles of whisky. Not any more. I was fine. I had a glass of wine after the game. But it was just a mouthful. — Paul Gascoigne

The problem with heartbreak is that nobody can help you when you're heartbroken. Nobody and nothing. Not the films you watch alone desperately searching for a character who feels the way you do, not the glasses or bottles of whisky you keep by your bed and certainly not Instagram. — Alexa Chung

Three miles long and two streets wide, the town curls around the bay ... a gaudy run with Mediterranean splashes of color, crowded steep-pitched roofs, fishing piers and fishing boats whose stench of mackerel and gasoline is as aphrodisiac to the sensuous nose as the clean bar-whisky smell of a nightclub where call girls congregate. — Norman Mailer

I acquired long-lived parents. My mother died at 94. Father died at 90, holding a glass of whisky. I think that's the secret of longevity - to have long-lived parents. The rest is discipline. — Khushwant Singh

Constable Moore had reached the age when men can subject their bodies to the worst irritations - whisky, cigars, woolen clothes, bagpipes - without feeling a thing or, at least, without letting on. — Neal Stephenson

I was playing birthday parties. House-rent parties where they used to sell whisky during prohibition. — Thelonious Monk

Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches. — Winston Churchill

Walking up to the Whisky some guys said to me 'the Scene is dead. Stop wearing makeup faggot!' All I could do was smile and think about the BVB Army and the legions of dedicated fans BVB has. I will wear my warpaint proudly, thank you very much! Seriously love you all. — Jinxx

My opponent left a glass of whisky 'en prise' and I took it 'en passant'. — Joseph Henry Blackburne

Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation. — Truman Capote

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