Scotch Quotes

I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis. (Humphrey Bogart)
The whole Scotch nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it. View quote
Horace Walpole
For God's sake, bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country. View quote
Reginald Maudling
Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I'd take Scotch. It's the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find. View quote
William Faulkner
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. View quote
Robertson Davies
It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding. View quote
Sydney Smith
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. View quote
Bill Bailey
Yeah, tell me I'm a bottle of single malt scotch, she thought. That's the way to my heart. View quote
L.J. Smith
If I were not French I would choose to be - Scotch. View quote
Wilfrid Laurier
Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my scotch, I say, I'm thirsty, not dirty. View quote
Joe E. Lewis
I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten. I am very happy when people have worn out my books, or that they're held together by Scotch tape. (Richard Scarry)
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. View quote
Bill Bruford
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? View quote
Goldwin Smith
The B[ritish] E[mpire] is a sisterhood of nations-the greatest in the world. Look at this table: There sits Africa-English and Boer; there sits Canada-French, Scotch & English; there sits Australia, representing many races-even Maoris; there sits India; here sit the representatives of England, Scotland & Wales; all we ask you to do is to take your place in this sisterhood of free nations. It is an invitation, Mr. De Valera: we invite you here. View quote
David Lloyd George
... to blow you Scotch beggars back to your native mountains. View quote
Guy Fawkes
We all agree it's too big to keep up with, that we're surrounded by life, that we'll never understand it, so we center it all in by swigging Scotch from the bottle and when it's empty I run out of the car and buy another one, period. View quote
Jack Kerouac
I feel with a peculiar sympathy all that relates to Scotland. The natives of Scotland, and all those who have Scotch blood in their veins-particularly if, like me, they only have Scotch blood in their veins-are not apt to forget the country from which they sprang. They know its great qualities. They know the solidity of its character. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
The national character of the three kingdoms was strongly marked in my army. I found the English regiments always in the best humour when we were well supplied with beef; the Irish when we were in the wine countries, and the Scotch when the dollars for pay came up. This looks like an epigram, but I assure you it was a fact, and quite perceptible; but we managed to reconcile all their tempers, and I will venture to say that in our later campaigns, and especially when we crossed the Pyrenees, there never was an army in the world in better spirits, better order, or better discipline. We had mended in discipline every campaign, until at last (smiling) I hope we were pretty near perfect. View quote
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Last time I was sober, man I felt bad Worst hangover that I ever had. It took six hamburgers and scotch all night Nicotine for breakfast just to put me right. 'Cause if you wanna run cool, If you wanna run cool, If you wanna run cool, you got to run On heavy, heavy fuel. View quote
Mark Knopfler
If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork. View quote
Khaled Hosseini
I started back to the house, and in the drive I met Jeeves. He was at the wheel of Stiffy's car. Beside him, looking like a Scotch elder rebuking sin, was the dog Bartholomew. (P. G. Wodehouse)
At five minutes to eleven on the morning named he was at the station, a false beard and spectacles shielding his identity from the public eye. If you had asked him he would have said that he was a Scotch business man. As a matter of fact, he looked far more like a motor-car coming through a haystack. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
I have a faculty of memorizing any song or poem as I hear it, many, especially the old Scotch and Irish ballads I heard my grandmother sing when I was but a child. View quote
Robert E. Howard
I was born under an unlucky star. I love France and I am not French. I am English and I can't like England. My father was Scotch, my mother was born in Honolulu. My father, William Tarn, died at the age of forty in 1890. My real name is Pauline Tarn. I changed it to Renée Vivien. View quote
Renée Vivien
In Rangoon The heat of noon Is just what the natives shun, They put their Scotch Or Rye down And lie down. View quote
Noël Coward