Debt Quote by Ivor Cutler

People get into debt head over heels because banks make it so easy to do so. Then the banks come along and act like…

— Jonathan Raymond

“Don't people drown their sorrows in things like scotch? Not strawberry whatever-it's-called.”

— Tom Rachman

“Don't you have something plain and wholesome, like scotch or bourbon?”

— Charlotte MacLeod

The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language.

— Erez Lieberman Aiden

“That dandy, the sky, enters blue-suited sun like a scotch in hand.”

— Cecilia Llompart

You wouldn't believe the kind of hate mail I get about my work on irregular verbs.

— Steven Pinker

I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed to me…

— Steven Pinker

Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular.

— Soren Kierkegaard

An appreciation of prose is learned, not instinctive. It is an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky.

— Abigail Padgett

Hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig.

— William Shakespeare

“His mouth tastes like Scotch, and feels familiar, like somewhere I've been before.”

— Catherine McKenzie

“above all, simplify the French language and abolish irregular verbs – a measure that would have rescued countless schoolchildren from the despotism of pernickety pedagogues.”

— Graham Robb