Single Grain Scotch

Famous quotes containing the words single, grain and/or scotch:

“From a single crime know the nation.”
—Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro] (70–19 B.C.)

“With a grain of salt.”
—Pliny The Elder (23–79)

“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)