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I’d give everything I own for a glass of whisky, wouldn’t you agree? The Father 2020 starring Anthony Hopkins et al
Gimme a whisky, ginger ale on the side, and don’t be stingy, baby. Greta Garbo, Anna Christie 1930 starring Greta Garbo & Charles Bickford & George F Marion & Marie Dressler & James T Mack & Lee Phelps et al, director Clarence Brown
The only thing to wash out t’ dust is whisky. Honeydripper 2007 starring Danny Glover & Yaya DaCosta & Charles S Dutton & Daryl Edwards & Vondie Curtis-Hall & Lisa Gay Hamilton & Stacy Keach & Mable John et al, director John Sayles, bloke in field
I’m all in favour of getting grants for musicians. Or any other good brand of scotch. Pepper Adams
Scott: When are y’gonna get off that milk diet, lad?
Chekov: This is vodka!
Scott: Where I come from, that’s soda pop. Now, this is a drink for a man.
Chekov: Scotch?
Scott: Aye.
Chekov: It was invented by a little old lady from Leningrad! Star Trek s2e15: The Trouble with Tribbles
Half a gallon of scotch. Star Trek s3e6: Specter of the Gun, Scott
I require large amounts of whisky. Star Trek: The Next Generation s5e26: Time’s Arrow s5e26, old codger to Data
[reviews photograph of Jack Dupree] And on the shelf behind him is his requisites for the day: he’s got some bottles of lager, three different types of whisky, and the bottle of milk is not for his health, it’s mixed with whisky because that lines your stomach. That’s one thing I learned from a lot of the old Blues singers was mixing whisky and milk. Val Wilmer, interview
You think that’s a talent too, knowing how to drink whisky? The Hustler 1961 starring Paul Newman & Jackie Gleason & Piper Laurie & George C Scott & Myron McCormick & Murray Hamilton & Stefan Gierasch et al, director Robert Rossen, Shark to Fast Eddie
There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren’t as good as others. Raymond Chandler
It is astonishing how much whisky the British Army carries into battle. Trench soldier, cited The First World War: Breaking the Deadlock
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
Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough. Mark Twain
I’m on a whisky diet. I’ve lost three days already. Tommy Cooper
Show me the way to the next whiskey bar,
Oh don’t ask why, Oh don’t ask why,
Show me the way to the next whiskey bar,
Oh don’t ask why, Oh don’t ask why ...
I tell you we must die … The Doors
Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast. Compton Mackenzie
Whisky is liquid sunshine. George Bernard Shaw
The light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude. James Joyce, Dubliners
A good gulp of hot whiskey at bedtime – it’s not very scientific but it helps. Alexander Fleming
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
Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake. W C Fields
Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting? W C Fields
I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis. Humphrey Bogart, alleged last words
Happiness is having a rare steak, a bottle of whisky, and a dog to eat the rare steak. Johnny Carson
Well, between Scotch and nothin’, I suppose I’d take Scotch. It’s the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find. William Faulkner, cited National Observer 3rd February 1964
Too many glasses of ale followed by the great malt which wounds, which wounds. Harold Pinter, No Man’s Land, Spooner; written 1974; Spooner, viz Gielgud & Richard TV 1978