Scotch Quotes - Page 2

• Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.

  W. C. Fields

  Nerves, Bartending, Whiskey

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• Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I'd take Scotch. It's the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find.

  William Faulkner

  Moonshine, Wells, I Can

  National Observer, February 3, 1964.

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• The remedy now is two scotches and an aspirin, I think.

  Harry Sinden

  Hockey, Thinking, Two

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• The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.

  Winston Churchill

  Drinking, Water, Effort

  Sir Winston Churchill (1965). “The Churchill Wit”

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• If I were not French I would choose to be - Scotch.

  Wilfrid Laurier

  Ifs

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• I like my whisky old and my women young.

  Errol Flynn

  Drinking, Whiskey, Funny Alcohol

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• So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life? Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.

  Daniel Silva

  Drinking, Alcohol, Rest Of Your Life

  Daniel Silva (2004). “The Marching Season”, p.66, Penguin

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• The story is told of Lord Kelvin, a famous Scotch physicist of the last century, that after he had given a lecture on atoms and molecules, one of his students came to him with the question, "Professor, what is your idea of the structure of the atom." "What," said Kelvin, "The structure of the atom? Why, don't you know, the very word 'atom' means the thing that can't be cut. How then can it have a structure?" "That," remarked the facetious young man, "shows the disadvantage of knowing Greek."

  Arthur Compton

  Mean, Cutting, Science

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• All I wanted and all Neal wanted and all anybody wanted was some kind of penetration into the heart of things where, like in a womb, we could curl up and sleep the ecstatic sleep that Burroughs was experiencing with a good big mainline shot of M. and advertising executives in NY were experiencing with twelve Scotch & Sodas in Stouffers before they made the drunkard's train to Westchester---but without hangovers.

  Jack Kerouac

  Hangover, Heart, Sleep

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• I've been on the whisky diet - I've already lost three days!

  Tommy Cooper

  Three, Whiskey, Lost

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• I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.

  Robertson Davies

  Country, Desire, Bankers

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• Someone is putting brandy in your bonbons, Grand Marnier in your breakfast jam, Kahlua in your ice cream, Scotch in your mustard and Wild Turkey in your cake.

  Marian Burros

  Food, Ice Cream, Turkeys

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• For God's sake bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country.

  Reginald Maudling

  Country, Awful, Sake

  Said on the aeroplane after visiting Northern Ireland for the first time,

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• The only thing better than one of my songs is one of my songs with a glass of scotch.

  Jackie Gleason

  Song, Glasses

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• My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Thinking, Names, Whiskey

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• But even with no money you could still go to places like the Scotch Club and, you know, John Lennon might be sitting right over there, but I was certainly not a part of any of that circle. I was truly peripheral.

  Donald Sutherland

  Circles, Sitting, Clubs

  "Total recall" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2005.

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• There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong.

  Ron White

  Real, Beer, Years

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• Well I ain't seen my baby since I don't know when,
  I've been drinking bourbon whiskey, scotch and gin
  Gonna get high man I'm gonna get loose,
  Need me a triple shot of that juice
  Gonna get drunk don't you have no fear
  I want one bourbon, one scotch and one beer
  One bourbon, one scotch, one beer.

  John Lee Hooker

  Baby, Drinking, Beer

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• We're trying to make our current house look domestic so that somebody will want to buy it. We're making a lot of simple, obvious improvements that never would have occurred to us to make while we actually lived here, because, tragically, we both happen to be domestically impaired. If we were birds, our nest would consist of a single twig with the eggs attached via Scotch tape.

  Dave Barry

  Simple, Eggs, Bird

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.71, Crown Archetype

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• I've sometimes thought . . . that the difference between us and the English is that the Scotch are hard in all other respects but soft with women, and the English are hard with women but soft in all other respects.

  James M. Barrie

  Differences, Sometimes, Hard

  James M. Barrie (2013). “My Best Plays (Annotated Edition)”, p.272, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon.

  Hugo Black

  Believe, Kentucky, Scotch Whisky

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• And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser.

  Bill Bruford

  Sweet, People, Littles

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• No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

  H. L. Mencken

  Marriage, Men, Scotch Whisky

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• Allison Winn Scotch is the real deal and The Department of Lost and Found is one you absolutely won't want to miss.

  Johanna Edwards

  Real, Missing, Want

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• Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.

  William Shakespeare

  Dance, Fall, Hot

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Much Ado About Nothing: Revised Edition”, p.219, Bloomsbury Publishing

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