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• The determining bulk of Scotch people had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God and often considered the two as of equal importance.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Golf, Two, People

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• Burns had his faults, his frailties. He was intensely human. Still, I would rather appear at the "Judgment Seat" drunk, and be able to say that I was the author of "A man's a man for 'a that," than to be perfectly sober and admit that I had lived and died a Scotch Presbyterian.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Drunk, Atheism

  Robert Green Ingersoll (2004). “Superstition and Other Essays”

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• For each glass, liberally large, the basic ingredients begin with ice cubes in a shaker and three or four drops of Angostura bitters on the ice cubes. Add several twisted lemon peels to the shaker, then a bottle-top of dry vermouth, a bottle-top of Scotch, and multiply the resultant liquid content by five with gin, preferably Bombay Sapphire. Add more gin if you think it is too bland... I have been told, but have no personal proof that it is true, that three of these taken in the course of an evening make it possible to fly from New York to Paris without an airplane.

  Isaac Stern

  New York, Taken, Airplane

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• There's nothing quite like a Scotch education. One is left with an irreparable debt. My head is full of irregular verbs still.

  Ivor Cutler

  Scotland, Verbs, Debt

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• I'm after a snake and please God I'll scotch it.

  Adam Hochschild

  Snakes, Please

  Adam Hochschild (2011). “King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa”, p.242, Pan Macmillan

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• Bonnie and Clyde became not just a big hit, but a movie that went through young audiences like a first slug of Scotch. It affected clothes, talk, manners. Though set in the thirties it had the feeling of 1966, the most dangerous moment in American young people remembered.

  Edward Jay Epstein

  Clothes, People, Feelings

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• The whole [Scotch] nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it.

  Horace Walpole

  Void, Humour, Wit

  Horace Walpole (1866). “The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford”, p.67

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• I don’t want any of this artificial superficial feeling stimulated by the choir. Today I have proved myself a glutton—​for Scotch oatmeal cookies and erotic thought. There is nothing left to say of me.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Oatmeal, Erotic, Feelings

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• We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners.

  John Shelton Reed

  Country, School, Stock Car Racing

  John Shelton Reed (1993). “My Tears Spoiled My Aim, and Other Reflections on Southern Culture”, p.15, University of Missouri Press

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• The pursuit of art is a delicate balance between influence and self-assertiveness. As self-realized artists, we all have different levels of tolerance for this mystery. Influence is like Scotch; it's good to know your personal limit.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Self, Tolerance

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• In Britain, a cup of tea is the answer to every problem. Fallen off your bicycle? Nice cup of tea. Your house has been destroyed by a meteorite? Nice cup of tea and a biscuit. Your entire family has been eaten by a Tyrannosaurus Rex that has travelled through a space/time portal? Nice cup of tea and a piece of cake. Possibly a savoury option would be welcome here too, for example a Scotch egg or a sausage roll.

  David Walliams

  Nice, Cake, Eggs

  "Mr. Stink". Book by David Walliams, www.mirror.co.uk. 2009.

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• You're getting into some kind of shape, cop." Aw, come on, now." Butch grinned. "Don't let that shower we took go to your head." Rhage fired a towel at the male. "Just pointing out your beer gut's gone." It was a Scotch pot. And I don't miss it.

  J.R. Ward

  Beer, Missing, Males

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4”, p.773, Penguin

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• You know how we make a Scotch and water in this home?" "No, sir," Gus said. "We pour Scotch into a glass and then call to mind thoughts of water, and then we mix the actual Scotch with the abstracted idea of water.

  John Green

  Home, Glasses, Ideas

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.106, Penguin

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• Giving up my scotch? My Macallan 18? That was hard for me! Though now that doesn't even sound good, being pregnant. You crave other things. A big thing of water sounds great!

  Jessica Simpson

  Mom, Mother, Giving Up

  "Motherhood Quotes from the Pages of ELLE". www.elle.com. May 11, 2012.

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• Language can't describe reality. Literature has no stable reference, no real meaning. Each reader's interpretation is equally valid, more important than the author's intention. In fact, nothing in life has meaning. Reality is subjective. Values and truths are subjective. Life itself is a kind of illusion. Blah, blah, blah, let's have another scotch.

  Dean Koontz

  Real, Important, Literature

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• What, then, is this new man, the American? They are a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans, and Swedes. From this promiscuous breed, that race, now called Americans, have arisen.

  J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

  Men, Race, America

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• I enjoyed every bit of the evening. I may not drink scotch or smoke a cheroot again, but I shall always cherish the fact that I did those things. The adventure is well worth the disappointing experience.

  Sarah MacLean

  Adventure, May, Evening

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• Because of some defect in my motor skill, I can never COMPLETELY wrap [gifts]....If I had been an ancient Egyptian in the field of mummies, the lower half of the Pharaoh's body would be covered only by scotch tape.

  Dave Barry

  Christmas, Skills, Would Be

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• I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but I love Counsellor Such-a-one, and Judge Such-a-one: so with physicians - I will not speak of my own trade - soldiers, English, Scotch, French, and the rest. But principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. This is the system upon which I have governed myself many years, but do not tell.

  Jonathan Swift

  Hate, Animal, Love Is

  Jonathan Swift (2016). “Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal”, p.374, Simon and Schuster

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• So. You refuse my money, you serve me thirty-year-old Highland Park scotch, and we've been in the same room for approximately five minutes, yet none of my bones are broken. This leads me to believe that your back is against the wall and you desperately need me for something. I'm dying to know what that is.

  Ilona Andrews

  Wall, Believe, Years

  Ilona Andrews (2013). “Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel”, p.36, Penguin

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• I have this extraordinary life during the day, and then I get to come home to my sweet husband who loves to cook with me. I have a nice glass of wine, he has some scotch, we chat, we cook, and we hang out with the dog. I have an absolute dream life.

  Rachael Ray

  Dream, Dog, Sweet

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• I'm all in favor of getting grants for musicians. Or any other good brand of Scotch.

  Pepper Adams

  Music, Favors, Jazz

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• Drink reacts on its practitioners in conflicting ways. One brave can knock off a quart of Scotch and look and act as sober as Herbert Hoover. Another, after three Martinis, makes two-cushion carroms off the chaise lounge as he attempts to negotiate the bathroom.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Two, Brave, Three

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• ... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered.

  Amelia Barr

  Sweet, Men, Bridges

  Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.386, Litres

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• Jimmy used to drink liquor. Now he's running for president and he drinks Scotch, and I've never trusted a Scotch-drinker.

  Billy Carter

  Running, President, Never Trust

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