The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.

It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.

The law will argue any thing, with any body who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time.

I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.

Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.

The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.

Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.

No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.

We had our breakfasts whatever happens in a house robbery or murder it doesnt matter you must have your breakfast.

Are there infinitely varying with each individual inbred forces of Good and Evil in all of us deep down below the reach of mortal encouragement and mortal repression hidden Good and hidden Evil both alike at the mercy of the liberating opportunity and the sufficient temptation

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.

The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex.

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.

Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.

Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, 'Please, I used to pull the same trick. There'd be an intervention, I'd make a big show of pouring out the liquor and then there was a case under the floorboards.'

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.

Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On Drugs, where every teenager knew who the bootleggers were.

Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate.

When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality.

We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given to us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it.

Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.

There are only two real ways to get ahead today - sell liquor or drink it.

I've certainly learned a great deal from my husband, though, and could never have written a book like Liquor without him and the people he introduces me to and the stories he brings home.

Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction.

George Liquor is really the richest character I have. I'm amazed there aren't 365 episodes about him on TV already.

Yes, it is worse than thrown away, because every fair minded man must admit that the expenditure of this sum of money in the county for intoxicating liquor creates lawlessness, makes criminals, wrecks homes and brings trouble to innocent women and children.

Its liquor is like the sweetest dew from Heaven.

I use the term bar-room to represent every means for the sale and traffic in liquor, and I earnestly appeal to the people to put an end to the traffic, no matter under what name or guise it may be carried on.

The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.

A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.

Drugs were pretty easy to quit taking. I was never addicted to anything to begin with. But then, liquor - I had to wait about another six years before I finally got around to quitting that. I'm sure glad I did.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.

The only character I ever remember actually creating in a flash of inspiration was George Liquor. God planted that in my head in an instant.

They liked me so long as the liquor flowed at my house, but I haven't seen any of them around lately.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.

I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.

Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now.

I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club.

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.

Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.

It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away.

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.

Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad; you will leave by the next town drain.