Gin Quotes

• My grammar be's ebonics, gin tonics, and chronic.

  

  Nelly
  • Education
  • Grammar
  • Gin

• The glowworm shows the matin to be near And gins to pale his uneffectual fire.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Fire
  • Shows
  • Pale

• Drive-in, you guzzle gin, commit a little mortal sin.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Sin
  • Dating
  • Gin

• We shall drink to our partnership. Do you like gin? It is my only weakness.

  

  Ernest Thesiger
  • Weakness
  • Partnership
  • Gin

• I 'gin to be aweary of the sun, And wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • World
  • Wish
  • Sun

• Like a great fool, I went ashore with them, and they gave me some cursed stuff they called gin, - such blasphemy I never heard! At first when they told me they had set up a great distillery of gin, I thought them very useful, clever, good men; for you know, captain, any nation might be converted by hollands; -but this was the unchristianest beastliest liquor I ever tasted, and it made me - as I feel now. Yet the foolish, idiot-people of the island think it very good, because it makes them mad-drunk, and they believe Heaven sent it; but it made me believe the devil had got amongst them.

  

  Edward John Trelawny
  • Believe
  • Heaven
  • Nation

• Soon we'll be out amid the cold world's strife. Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life. But as we go our sordid sep'rate ways, We shall ne'er forget thee, thou golden college days. Hearts full of youth, Hearts full of truth, Six parts gin to one part vermouth.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • World
  • Heart
  • Past

• Bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.

  

  George Eliot
  • Literature
  • Amusing
  • Gin

• From the early days of the telegraph, to be a telegrapher was a job, and there weren't many of those folks. They could recognize each other's style by their dots and dashes. They called that the "fist." St. George, they have a fist. You taste something from St. George, even across categories - the gin, the whisky - it tastes like something from St. George. It's the same as going to a great bar: You get the soul of the person making it.

  

  Adam Rogers
  • Soul
  • Style
  • Whisky

• A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

  

  Roy Blount, Jr.
  • Book
  • Anchors
  • Gin

• Sell your soul and half your shoes for a glass of gin.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Soul
  • Shoes
  • Sell

• The wages of Gin is Debt.

  

  Ethel Watts Mumford
  • Debt
  • Wages
  • Gin

• Work is the only answer. I have three rules to live by. One, get your work done. If that doesn't work, shut up and drink your gin. And when all else fails, run like hell!

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Hell
  • Answers
  • Drink