Scots have long memories, and they're not the most forgiving of people. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
The Scots are subsidy junkies whingeing like a trampled bagpipe as they wait for their next fix of English taxpayers' money. — Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley Copy Share Image
[On being told Mary, Queen of Scots, was taller than she:] Then she is too high, for I myself am neither too… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
The more a climate can be created in which neither the English nor the Scots are given cause to resent each other,… — Simon Heffer Copy Share Image
Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special. — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
The Scots will do anything to beat the English or just to see them lose, but I've never bought into that really. — Gerard Butler Copy Share Image
The Scots are very hospitable; almost as hospitable as the Americans. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
For generations comedians have made jokes about Scots-Irish in the South inter-breeding. "I am my own grandpa" and all that stuff; you… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
[The natural world cleans water, pollinates plants and provides pharmaceuticals, among many other gifts.] Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Of this diversion the Scots are so fond, that, when the weather will permit, you may see a multitude of all ranks,… — Tobias Smollett Copy Share Image
I don't know a lot about the Scots, but I'm aware they have beaten some of the English counties in the NCL… — Justin Langer Copy Share Image
It's the same in real life: Notorious murderers get off scot-free and live happily all their lives, while good people die -… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the North; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Past persons of Scottishness in contact with mastermind of supernatural persuasion in London, aka Agent Doom.’ Floote moved on to the third… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
Elizabeth’s entire body started to tremble as his lips began descending to hers. and she sought to forestall what her heart knew… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
“Scots are an inquisitive bunch. They ask questions, pick over the finer details and want counter-arguments backed up. Sometimes there can be… — Gabriella Bennett Copy Share Image
The Scots (originally Irish, but by now Scotch) were at this time inhabiting Ireland, having driven the Irish (Picts) out of Scotland;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After all, in both languages we were dealing in large measure not with English and French, but with Scots and Irish, Bretons… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
A British imperium enabled Scots to feel themselves peers of the Ebglish in a way still denied them in an island kingdom.… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
And when I smiled, 'Bing!' I almost blinded her. She said, 'Great Scot, are you a thief? Seems like you have a… — Slick Rick Copy Share Image
As any man, I, of course, have certain preferences. Being a Scot by birth, I'm inclined to favor those with a well-scrubbed… — David Niven Copy Share Image
“That's richt. When we were campaignin' wi' Marlborough oor lads had mony time to sleep wi' the canon dirlin' aboot them. Ye… — Neil Munro Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that all women are blameless - all women are not. There are women with despicable characters who are cruel… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding 'like Princess Di') but the more thoughtful ones resent… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
Today a Scot is leading a British army in France [Field Marshall Douglas Haig], another is commanding the British Grand Fleet at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The infinitesimal seedlings became a forest of trees that grew courteously, correcting the distances between themselves as they shaped themselves to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In Scotland, when people congregate, they tend to argue and discuss and reason; in Orkney, they tell stories. — George Mackay Brown Copy Share Image
Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It’s all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing — Billy Boyd Copy Share Image
You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas. — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image