6 Quotes Tagged: whisky

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.

Whisky is liquid sunshine.

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.

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.

The light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.

What shocked us the most was that we had no idea why we should be so shocked. Like opening a ginger ale and finding Jamesons' inside: nothing wrong with it, but it sort of takes you by surprise.