“It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.”
Sydney Smith (1771–1845) English writer and clergyman
Vol. I, ch. 1, p. 15
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
“Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I’d take Scotch. It’s the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find.”
Source: As quoted in National Observer (3 February 1964)
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