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.
No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
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.
What I really love is my scotch. It's the power, the power of positive drinking.
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.
There's nothing quite like a Scotch education. One is left with an irreparable debt. My head is full of irregular verbs still.
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.
Hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig.
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?
A scotch buzz is the best buzz in the world.
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.
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.
It was the sort of house that glows with substance and savoir vivre in those advertisements for the best Scotch. It had wonderful bones.
So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life? Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.
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.
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.
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.
There are two things a Highlander likes naked, and the other one is Malt Whisky
My family was a bunch of drunks. When I was six I came up missing, they put my picture on a bottle of scotch.
It's not good to throw back scotch with a new fetus.