Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by David Daiches

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Scottish historian David Daiches.

Last updated on November 3, 2024.

David Daiches was a Scottish literary historian and literary critic, scholar and writer. He wrote extensively on English literature, Scottish literature and Scottish culture.

Scottish - Historian | September 2, 1912 - July 15, 2005

Source: Wikipedia

In its use of words poetry is just the reverse of science. Very definite thoughts do occur, but not because the words are so chosen as logically to bar out all possibilities save one.

David Daiches

The proper drinking of Scotch whisky is more than indulgence: it is a toast to civilization, a tribute to the continuity of culture, a manifesto of man's determination to use the resources of nature to refresh mind and body and enjoy to the full the senses with which he has been endowed.

David Daiches