Vodka Quotes

“Is that vodka?" Margarita asked weakly.
The cat jumped up in his seat with indignation.
"I beg pardon, my queen," he rasped, "Would I ever allow myself to offer vodka to a lady? This is pure alcohol!”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“After the first glass of vodka
you can accept just about anything
of life even your own mysteriousness
you think it is nice that a box
of matches is purple and brown and is called La Petite and comes from Sweden
for they are words that you know and that is all you know words not their feelings or what they mean and you write because you know them not because you understand them because you don't you are stupid and lazy and will never be great but you do what you know because what else is there?”
― Frank O'Hara, The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

“Things on the essential list: vodka, Nine Inch Nails, a steady supply of mortal men, and an all-purpose bitchy attitude.”
― Richelle Mead

“They're professionals at this in Russia, so no matter how many Jell-O shots or Jager shooters you might have downed at college mixers, no matter how good a drinker you might think you are, don't forget that the Russians - any Russian - can drink you under the table.”
― Anthony Bourdain, A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines

“Of course we got drunk!" Semyon said. "It's okay to get drunk, Anton. If you need to real bad. Only you have to get drunk on vodka. Cognac and wine—that's all for the heart."

"So what's vodka for?"

"For the soul. If it's hurting real bad”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch

“His blazing red filly switched leads and spurted forward, flattening out and making up ground. Francine left the other horses behind and lunged after Miss Smith. Was there enough track left for her to catch the leader?”
― Paul A. Barra, Strangers and Sojourners: A Big Percy Pletcher thriller

“Wine and tobacco destroy the individuality. After a cigar or a glass of vodka you are no longer Peter Sorin, but Peter Sorin plus somebody else. Your ego breaks in two: you begin to think of yourself in the third person.”
― Anton Chekhov, The Seagull

“Allan interrupted the two brothers by saying that he had been out and about in the world and if there was one thing he had learned it was that the very biggest and apparently most impossible conflicts on earth were based on the dialogue: “You are stupid, no, it’s you who are stupid, no, it’s you who are stupid.” The solution, said Allan, was often to down a bottle of vodka together and then look ahead.”
― Jonas Jonasson, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

“Can you tell us what happened, Percy? All right if I call you Percy?” “Yes, if I can call you Harry.”
The detective smiled thinly. Janet Bruno did not smile at all.”
― Paul A. Barra, Strangers and Sojourners: A Big Percy Pletcher thriller

“I kiss her. I kiss her and kiss her. I try not to bite her lip. She tastes like vodkahoney.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, Dora: A Headcase

“Is that vodka?' Margarita asked weakly. The cat jumped up from its chair in indignation. 'Excuse me, your majesty,' he squeaked, 'do you think I would give vodka to a lady? That is pure spirit!”
― Mihail Bulhakov

“Vodka goes well with a wintery perspective. Nothing else provokes such presentiments of falling snow except, for some, the communist seizure of the state.”
― Michèle Bernstein, All the King's Horses [Semiotext(e) / Native Agents]

“So long as the child was fed on its mother's milk, everything seemed to it smooth and easy. But when it had to give up milk and take to vodka, - and this is the inevitable law of human development - the childish suckling dreams receded into the realm of the irretrievable past.”
― Lev Shestov, All Things are Possible

“... to pour out one's heart and not drink vodka at the same time, well, that is inconceivable for a Russian soul...”
― László Krasznahorkai, The World Goes On

“Tea is not vodka, it is impossible to drink it a lot”
― Mikhail Bulgakov

“He decided that Absolut vodka was his most dependable companion; the name itself evoked the kind of certainty he was looking for in life”
― Jennifer Valoppi, Certain Cure: Where Science Meets Religion

“Ducks swim in water. That's obvious, but do you know why they swim in water? Because I don't keep their pond stocked full of vodka.”
― Jarod Kintz, One Out of Ten Dentists Agree: This Book Helps Fight Gingivitis. Maybe Tomorrow I’ll Ask Nine More Dentists.: A BearPaw Duck And Meme Farm Production

“A track I’ve always liked by Mogwai goes on a loop while I pour a second glass of Reyka. This time it tastes of lava fields and thermal springs, aromatic alcohol evaporating stale thoughts, familiar and foreign. Something unnamed is melting, germinating, potentiating the currents of tomorrow across frozen, unpopulated dreamscapes.”
― Laurie Perez, The Look of Amie Martine

“She raised her middle finger to their smiles. She downed vodkas and cocktails and stumbled through the crowds and the streets, occasionally stretching up to touch a star in the black ice cap of the sky, shaking her hand and blowing on her fingers when it burnt her.”
― Angela Panayotopulos, The Wake Up

“After seeing Fern's little demonstration on national television" Apothia said, "your grandmother and I decided we needed something to give us strength. We haven't decided if that strength will come from food or from vodka.”
― Leslye Walton, The Price Guide to the Occult

“Miután kihozta a vodkát, és kitöltötte, megkérdezte:
– Mire igyunk?
– A macskákra, – vágtam rá. – Meg a nőkre!
– A macskák olyanok, mint a nők. – felelte.
– Ezért szeretjük őket.
– Így van! Egészség!
Azzal felhajtottuk a vodkát.

148. oldal (Underground, 2017)”
― Péter Szabó Csongor, Rigókő

“What are those?" Ryker asked.
On the table were three large shot glasses, filled with vodka and topped with a spurt of whipped cream and sprinkles.
"Pancakes." I took one of the glasses, ready to knock it back.
"Dani, those are not pancakes," Ryker said, leaning forward to smell them. "That is vodka."
"Potato pancakes," I said, and I knocked mine back. "Don't judge a family tradition, it's a long story and you can't tell me I don't need a shot or three after what I went through."
He didn't looked impressed. "You drink as much as Gavin.”
― Sabrina Blackburry, Dirty Lying Dragons

“Another bad sign - someone or something had turned vodka into water. This was not my preferred kind of miracle.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“«Tú eres su víctima, tú estás en su compartimiento (no es él quien está en el tuyo) y te invita a beber vodka como si te ofreciera su propia sangre»”
― Daniel Utrilla, A Moscú sin Kaláshnikov

“Tu zawsze obecna jest myśl o wódce, wiedza o niej. Napić się, upić - najlepszy sposób na odnalezienie sensu pośród bezsensowności. Od wódki uzależnieni są nawet ci, którzy nigdy nie pili, bo muszą sobie radzić w tym świecie pijanych. Nie mówiąc już o tych, którzy odważyli się przestać pić.”
― Taras Prokhasko, W gazetach tego nie napiszą

“Parecia que nada se fazia na Mongólia sem um brinde de vodka. De todas as tradições russas que os sovietes tinham exportado para os seus satélites, era vergonhoso que a que prevalecia fosse a vodka a qual, antigamente, nem sequer fazia parte da sua cultura.”
― Ewan McGregor, Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World

“Primeiro, uma noite passada no meio de gente armada a beber vodka e, agora, pelos vistos, eu era a primeira pessoa a entrar na antiga União Soviética a fazer acrobacias numa mota. Viva a Rússia!”
― Charley Boorman, Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World

“NOT ONE CREASE IT STRAIGHTENS
ALCOHOL WASTES TIME INSIDE ME

एक भी सलवट नहीं जो वो निकाल देती हो
शराब मेरे सिर्फ़ अंदर वक़्त बर्बाद करती है

EK BHI SALVAT NAHIN JOH WOH NIKAL DETI HO
SHARAB MERE ANDAR WAQT BARBAD KARTI HAI

4 October National Vodka Day”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“To clean the 240,000-liter saltwater tank where reef sharks circle what is to become Germany's biggest living coral reef, a filter apparatus runs on the lower level, breaking down nitrates with an anaerobic medium. The bacteria living in this medium extract oxygen from the nitrates that result from excreted waste, and they feed on carbon obtained from alcohol. This is provided to them in the form of vodka, purchased wholesale in ten-liter containers. Pure alcohol is not necessary; the carbon content in vodka (roughly forty percent) is sufficient.”
― Hanna Jurisch

“Bah. Of course he does! He is a schoolboy! He must learn to read Latin, recite Shakespeare, and drink vodka!”
― Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness