Scotch Quotes - Page 5

• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether by political disgust and personal confusion. Fifty years on, I don't associate the book with anything that ever happened to me, save for one wordless encounter at London airport when a worn-out, middle-aged military kind of man in a stained raincoat slammed a handful of mixed foreign change on to the bar and in gritty Irish accents ordered himself as much Scotch as it would buy. In that moment, Alec Leamas was born. Or so my memory, not always a reliable informant, tells me.

  John le Carre

  Memories, Military, Book

  "John le Carré: 'I was a secret even to myself'". www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2013.

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• Deploring change is the unchangeable habit of all Englishmen. If you find any important figures who really like change, such as Bernard Shaw, Keir Hardie, Lloyd George, Selfridge or Disraeli, you will find that they are not really English at all, but Irish, Scotch, Welsh, American or Jewish. Englishmen make changes, sometimes great changes. But, secretly or openly, they always deplore them.

  Raymond Postgate

  Important, Sometimes, Bernard Shaw

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• I don't even like Greg Glassman. I don't have a cult like allegiance to the guy. I really don't like him. He's too hard to get on the phone and he doesn't drink my kind of scotch.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Phones, Guy, Kind

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• I was a drinker, so I went through the scotches. Before single malts hit, there were really cheap scotches, because nobody was paying attention to them. Then by the time they started jacking those prices up, I moved on to vodka.

  Lewis Black

  Moved On, Attention, Vodka

  "Lewis Black on the things he'll always love". Interview with David Wolinsky, www.avclub.com. February 15, 2010.

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• The image of the reporter as a nicotine-stained Quixote, slugging back Scotch while skewering city hall with an expose ripped out of a typewriter on the crack of deadline, persists despite munificent evidence to the contrary.

  Paul Gray

  Typewriters, Cities, Cracks

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• People who leave their cars on the street with tape covering their broken windows are obviously too trusting. I mean, when your car did have glass for a window, someone broke into it. How is tape any more of a deterrent? What are the thieves going to say? Ooh, that like looks like duct tape, we can't beat that. Let's look for one with scotch or masking.

  Aaron Karo

  Mean, Glasses, People

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• If someone opens a glorious Scotch or a bottle of wine, it's no more than a whimsy, but after nearly 40 years I'm used to it. I don't find it difficult not being drunk when other people are, but I get uncomfortable because they're uncomfortable with where I am.

  Martin Shaw

  Wine, Years, People

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I'm second in doubles - double vodkas, double scotches.

  Jim Leyland

  Vodka

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• My kids scotch tape worms to the sidewalk and watch the birds get hernias.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Kids, Bird, Watches

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• If you take a scotch whiskey and distill out the alcohol, what is left has an amazing taste to it and can be used as a flavoring for a dessert.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Alcohol, Taste, Whiskey

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history?

  Goldwin Smith

  Character, Differences, Doubt

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• Champagne's funny stuff. I'm used to whiskey. Whiskey is a slap on the back, and champagne's a heavy mist before my eyes.

  James Stewart

  Eye, Stuff, Whiskey

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• Incredible to think isn't it, that every single Scotsman, started off as a scotch egg. Old and gingery.

  Milton Jones

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• The scotch egg is such a Scottish food. It's as though a great Scottish chef said: I need a tasty snack. Let's take an egg... and wrap it in meat!! Makes it a bit harder.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Snacks

  "Never Mind the Buzzcocks". Comedy, Game-Show, Music, 1996 - 2015.

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• I've had very little sex. I like my Scotch, but I've never been drunk.

  Khushwant Singh

  Sex, Drunk, Littles

  Source: unforgettabletarun.blogspot.com

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• Mendelssohn never wrote any Water Music. However, he wrote the Scotch Symphony, which is even better, or at least stronger.

  Victor Borge

  Funny, Music, Humorous

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• I mulled over what he had told me as I savored the Scotch. Not bad, really - like a beer that's been in a brawl.

  David Justice

  Beer

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• Apropos, is not the Scotch phrase 'Auld Lang Syne' exceedingly expressive? I shall give you the verses on the other sheet. The words of 'Auld Lang Syne' are good, but the music is an old air, the rudiments of the modern tune of that name. ... Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. ... Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure thrill the deepest notes of woe. ... Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

  Robert Burns

  Cutting, Men, Air

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• Last time I was sober, man I felt bad,
  Worst hangover that I ever had.
  It took six hamburgers, Scotch all night,
  Nicotine for breakfast just to put me right.

  Mark Knopfler

  Drinking, Hangover, Night

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• Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the Scotch been weaker, had the gods been kinder, had the dice been hotter, this could have been a one-sentence story: Once upon a time I lived happily ever after.

  Mickey Rooney

  Once Upon A Time, Stories, Dice

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• I drink a lot, probably too much. My scene while writing lyrics is always a bottle of scotch and stacks of note cards, pencil and pencil sharpener. I throw around note cards and drink.

  Ben Folds

  Writing, Cards, Bottles

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• It's not good to throw back scotch with a new fetus.

  Jessica Simpson

  Pregnancy, Fetus

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• Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotch man happy!

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Whiskey, Let Me

  "The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides". Book by James Boswell. Statement on October 23, 1773., 1785.

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• The Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is 'to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.' But we shall then know that these are the same thing. Fully to enjoy is to glorify. In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Forever, Ends

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• You mix two jiggers of Scotch to one jigger of Metrecal. So far I've lost five pounds and my driver's license.

  Rocky Bridges

  Two, Pounds, Lost

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