115 Scotch Quotes
Following is our list of scotch quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about scotch whisky.
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Famous Scotch Quotes
Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I'd take Scotch. It's the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find. — William Faulkner
Give me a scotch, I'm starving. — Sayings
Scotch whisky is made from barley and the morning dew on angel's nipples. — Warren Ellis
My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey. — Igor Stravinsky
The only thing better than one of my songs is one of my songs with a glass of scotch. — Jackie Gleason
Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch. — W. C. Fields
Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair. — William Dunbar
I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch. — George Burns
I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon. — Hugo Black
The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter. — Samuel Beckett
I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it. — Mark Twain
The Scots are a very tough people. They have drive-by headbuttings. In Glasgow a sweatband is considered a silencer. — Emo Philips
What whiskey will not cure, there is no cure for. — Proverbs
I'm a beer man. I tried to drink whiskey and Scotch but I don't get it. It smells like a girl who didn't shower and just splashed a lot of perfume on. — Mads Mikkelsen
Stop your nonsense and drink your whiskey! — Zachary Taylor
Short Scotch Quotes
- There are two things a Highlander likes naked, and the other one is Malt Whisky — R. H. Bruce Lockhart
- Happiness is having a rare steak, a bottle of whiskey, and a dog to eat the rare steak. — Johnny Carson
- The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude. — James Joyce
- I've been on the whisky diet - I've already lost three days! — Tommy Cooper
- If you want to feel less sexy put scotch tape on your nipples. — Demetri Martin
- Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast. — Compton Mackenzie
- One good thing about rain in Scotland. Most of it ends up as scotch. — Peter Alliss
- Whiskey, like a beautiful woman, demands appreciation. You gaze first, then it's time to drink. — Haruki Murakami
- There is no such thing as a bad whisky. Some whiskies just happen to be better than others. — William Faulkner
Mr Mom Quotes
My mom always complains about my lack of a boyfriend. Well, next time she asks, I'm going to tell her I'm dating two different guys-Mr Duracell and Mr Energizer. — Michelle Landry
My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my brother was eight; I never forgot it. — Stephen King
That's an actor's life. I thought Meet Joe Black was gonna be one of the big changes for me, and it was gonna be a runaway hit - and it wasn't. And with Mr. Mom, I said, "There's just no way." And it turned out to be a huge hit. — Jeffrey Tambor
Every couple years when Mr. [Hugh] Hefner would call, I would very graciously decline, because my mom would kill me, and I thought it was more mysterious keeping my clothes on. — Cindy Margolis
Mom, thank you. Mr. Palmer, my father I never had, thank you for teaching me what it is to be a man. — Ray Rice
Scotch Whisky Quotes
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
The proper drinking of Scotch whisky is more than indulgence: it is a toast to civilization, a tribute to the continuity of culture, a manifesto of man's determination to use the resources of nature to refresh mind and body and enjoy to the full the senses with which he has been endowed. — David Daiches
I like my whisky old and my women young. — Errol Flynn
An appreciation of prose is learned, not instinctive. It is an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky. — Abigail Padgett
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
Scotch Whisky is about the only thing left that is guaranteed to bring comfort to mankind. — Robert Boothby, Baron Boothby
Scotch Whiskey Quotes
My family was a bunch of drunks. When I was six I came up missing, they put my picture on a bottle of scotch. — Rodney Dangerfield
Wild Turkey whiskey and Philip Morris cigarettes are essential to the maintenance of human life! — Herb Kelleher
Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotch man happy! — Samuel Johnson
Awesome! I'd just bullied Jesus into doing a shot with me. Nobody would ever believe it, but I didn't care. We ordered the insanely expensive stuff, seventy-five dollars for a 1.75-ounce pour of premium Irish whiskey, because if you're doing a shot with Jesus, you don't buy him scotch. — Kevin Hearne
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
Scotch Tape Quotes
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
I like to think of myself as some of the Scotch tape that holds things together - I'm very handy to have around. But all that actors really need is a bare stage. Lighting is just one of the luxuries of the theater. — Jean Rosenthal
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
My kids scotch tape worms to the sidewalk and watch the birds get hernias. — Rodney Dangerfield
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and it holds the world together. — Oprah Winfrey
Maybe I'm just getting old, but I remember when your average NFL player would come to the sideline, spit out three bicuspids, Scotch-tape his humerus together and get back out there. — Rick Reilly
The way my team are doing, we could get Wilt Chamberlain in a trade and find out that he's really two midgets Scotch-taped together. — Gene Shue
If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape. — Raymond Herzog
I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown unless strictly confined to quarters. — Anne Fadiman
Scotty Quotes
The blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists. — Jimmy Page
I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here. — Robert Anton Wilson
Scotty heard that I was thinking about quitting Apple because of his actions, so he called me into his office and asked what it would take for me to stay? I said, maybe if I could work on the Mac project, which Steve had just taken over from Jef Raskin. — Andy Hertzfeld
The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain. — James Doohan
For me, the best vacation is just relaxing on the couch! — Scotty McCreery
I'm a pretty low-key North Carolina boy. I like to go fishing and hang out with my friends. — Scotty McCreery
Growing up, my idols were Lucky Luke and Jolly Jumper. And Scottie Pippen. — Dirk Nowitzki
What makes me unique is that, I'm normal. — Scotty McCreery
I really didn`t have to work, shall we say, with "Star Trek." It was a natural. When I opened my mouth, there was Scotty. It`s like I tell people what you see in Scotty is 99% James Doohan and 1% accent. — James Doohan
I've told many people that I'm not looking to go out there and find the most beautiful girl in the world who likes me because I'm 'Mr. American Idol Scott McCreery.' If I could just find a nice hometown girl who just likes me for who I am, that's all I want. — Scotty McCreery
Scottish Quotes
My heart 's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart 's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer. — Robert Burns
Scottish politics, U.K. politics, is not really like American politics in this respect. Not everybody is absolutely obsessed with image. — Nicola Sturgeon
I don't feel we need to be independent for me to feel confident in my Scottish identity. I think Scotland is pretty comfortable in its identity. We won't need independence to preserve it... if we don't become independent, it won't disappear; it isn't under existential threat. — Nicola Sturgeon
I desperately want Scotland to be an independent country. I cannot, though, sit here and tell you definitively that it will happen, and that it will happen on this timescale, because I have to respect the opinion of the people of Scotland. — Nicola Sturgeon
The fact is Scottish Labour has lost its way. — Nicola Sturgeon
Taxing people for having a spare bedroom and forcing them into rent arrears or the possibility of losing homes they have lived in for years has always been a cruel and heartless measure, and so it is good that the Scottish Parliament has been able to step in. — Nicola Sturgeon
It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine. — P. G. Wodehouse
Legally, Scottish fish can be sold if it contains up to eight lice per fish, but the reality is that Scottish salmon sold in supermarkets often contains up to twenty times the legal amount. — Tim Spector
Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together. — Alexander Smith
The decision on whether there is another referendum is down to the Scottish people. — Nicola Sturgeon
People Writing About Scotch
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 William Faulkner |
373 | 5506 |
 Sayings |
6895 | 535 |
 Warren Ellis |
41 | 266 |
 Igor Stravinsky |
97 | 1172 |
 Jackie Gleason |
29 | 784 |
.jpg) W. C. Fields |
229 | 2882 |
More Scotch Quotes
Cuban cigars are an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky. If you're not used to them, you'll get a headache, you'll find them much too strong. But to a cigar connoisseur, a longtime smoker, if you have a well-made, well-aged one, there is nothing like a Cuban cigar. Getting them is the ultimate mission; any cigar lover would do anything — Marvin Shanken
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
Scotch beef, salmon and shellfish are recognised the world over for their excellence and Scottish provenance. People recognise the Scottish brand. They associate the country with quality food and drink, and clearly other Scottish sectors, such as dairy, can benefit from that, too. — Nicola Sturgeon
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
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
I don't mind growing old. If I have to go before my time, this is how I'll go-- cigarette in one hand, glass of scotch in the other. — Ava Gardner
Mendelssohn never wrote any Water Music. However, he wrote the Scotch Symphony, which is even better, or at least stronger. — Victor Borge
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
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
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. — Khaled Hosseini
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
The best blended Scotch in the history of the world - which was also the favourite drink of the Iraqi Baath Party, as it still is of the Palestinian Authority and the Libyan dictatorship and large branches of the Saudi Arabian royal family - is Johnnie Walker Black. Breakfast of champions, accept no substitute. — Christopher Hitchens
I used to come home at night full of inspiration, and sit up with a bottle of Scotch. As I wrote, the words seemed wonderful, just too wonderful to be coming from me. Next morning I always found they were terrible and I could never use anything I wrote. — Gypsy Rose Lee
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
Vodka eyeballing sounds great, but it's a slippery slope. Next, you'll be scotch nostriling, tequila nippling and, before you know it, Jager tainting. — Stephen Colbert
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
I wanna get drunk 'til I'm off my mind. One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer. — John Lee Hooker
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
The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense. — William Hazlitt
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