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Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotch man happy!

— Samuel Johnson

It looked like an old painting, but real - everything achingly idyllic in the morning light - and I thought about how wonderfully strange…

— John Green

It was a grand old house, the Ayemenem House, but aloof-looking. As though it had little to do with the people who lived in…

— Arundhati Roy

I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture.

— Susan Strasberg

We came to the house, and it is an old house, full of great chimneys where wood is burnt on ancient dogs upon the…

— Charles Dickens

If I had grown up in that house I couldn't have loved it more, couldn't have been more familiar with the creak of the…

— Donna Tartt

“Our house was made of stone, stucco, and clapboard; the newer wings, designed by a big-city architect, had a good deal of glass, and…

— Joyce Carol Oates

The Highlanders regale themselves with whisky. They find it an excellent preservation against the winter cold. It is given with great success to the…

— Tobias Smollett

“It was a fine meal after the Calormene fashion. I don't know whether you would have liked it or not, but Shasta did. There…

— C.S. Lewis

Scotch Whisky is about the only thing left that is guaranteed to bring comfort to mankind.

— Robert Boothby, Baron Boothby

I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.

— Anonymous

“the old and worn buildings held a theatrical magic to their fading façades. They were weathered almost by design; they almost looked like they…

— Robertson Tait