Quotes with liquor

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• Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor.

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality.

  Al Capone
  American gangster and businessman (1899 - 1947)
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• After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.

  As quoted in ""Billy" Sunday, the man and his message: with his own words which have won thousands for Christ" by William Thomas Ellis

  Billy Sunday
  American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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• Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

  Jonathan Swift
  English writer (1667 - 1745)
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• Candy, is dandy, but Liquor, is quicker.

  Ogden Nash
  American poet (1902 - 1971)
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• Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

  Samuel Johnson
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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• Could man be drunk for ever
  With liquor, love, or fights,
  Lief should I rouse at mornings
  And lief lie down of nights.
  But men at whiles are sober
  And think by fits and starts,
  And if they think, they fasten
  Their hands upon their hearts.

  Last Poems (1922) No. 10, st. 2

  A. E. Housman
  British poet (1859 - 1936)
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• Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.

  John Gay
  British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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• I always keep a supply of liquor handy in case I see a snake - which I also keep handy.

  W. C. Fields
  American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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• It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front pocket can be picked by a trotting horse looking for sugar, and your hind pocket by a thief looking for his fortune.

  E. B. White
  American writer (1899 - 1985)
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• Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.

  Tennessee Williams
  American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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• The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.

  Louis Ferdinand Céline
  French writer (1894 - 1961)
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• There are only two real ways to get ahead today - sell liquor or drink it.
  

  W. C. Fields
  American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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• They liked me so long as the liquor flowed at my house, but I haven't seen any of them around lately.

  Bud Abbott
  American comedian and actor (1897 - 1974)
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• 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.

  Buffalo Bill
  American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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• What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician - these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin.

  Polly Adler
  American madam and author (0 - 1962)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• conversation
• prostitution
• bootlegging
• hospitality
• individual
• everything

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