Whiskey Quotes

“Ya got cigarettes?” she asks. “Yes,” I say,“I got cigarettes.” “Matches?” she asks.“Enough to burn Rome.” “Whiskey?”“Enough whiskey for a Mississippi River of pain.” “You drunk?” “Not yet.”

“It is irrelevant to the entrepreneur, as the servant of the consumers, whether the wishes and wants of the consumers are wise or unwise, moral or immoral. He produces what the consumers want. In this sense he is amoral. He manufactures whiskey and guns just as he produces food and clothing. It is not his task to teach reason to the sovereign consumers. Should one entrepreneur, for ethical reasons of his own, refuse to manufacture whiskey, other entrepreneurs would do so as long as whiskey is wanted and bought. It is not because we have distilleries that people drink whiskey; it is because people like to drink whiskey that we have distilleries. One may deplore this. But it is not up to the entrepreneurs to improve mankind morally. And they are not to be blamed if those whose duty this is have failed to do so.”

“You can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey.”

“Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?”

“The whiskey kicked like a mugger.”

“We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.”

“The second whiskey is always my favorite. From the third on, it no longer has any taste. It's just something to pour into your stomach.”

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

“He smelled of cigarettes and whiskey, the smell of Cambridge and youth.”