Famous quotes containing the words malt and/or scotch:
“And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God’s ways to man.”
—A.E. (Alfred Edward)
“It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding. The only idea of wit, or rather that inferior variety of the electric talent which prevails occasionally in the North, and which, under the name of “Wut,” is so infinitely distressing to people of good taste, is laughing immoderately at stated intervals.”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)
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