I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch
The Scots (originally Irish, but by now Scotch) were at this time inhabiting Ireland, having driven the Irish (Picts) out of Scotland; while the Picts (originally Scots) were now Irish (living in brackets) and vice versa. It is essential to keep these distinctions clearly in mind (and verce visa).
I'm second in doubles - double vodkas, double scotches.
I started drinking Scotch just to be a man.
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.
Scotch needs water like a fish needs a bicycle.
All I wanted and all Neal wanted and all anybody wanted was some kind of penetration into the heart of things where, like in a womb, we could curl up and sleep the ecstatic sleep that Burroughs was experiencing with a good big mainline shot of M. and advertising executives in NY were experiencing with twelve Scotch & Sodas in Stouffers before they made the drunkard's train to Westchester---but without hangovers.
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!
There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong.
Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I’d take Scotch. It’s the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find.
I've had very little sex. I like my Scotch, but I've never been drunk.
For God's sake bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country.
Scotch Whisky is about the only thing left that is guaranteed to bring comfort to mankind.
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.
An appreciation of prose is learned, not instinctive. It is an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky.
If God had meant for me to be religious, he would have alphabetized the books of the Bible. It was just too hard for me to find what I was looking for, especially if I was looking for it through a few glasses of scotch.
Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.
Whoever said laughter is the best medicine had clearly never tasted scotch.
The light music of whiskey falling into a glass - an agreeable interlude.
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.