Ye lover of the picturesque, if ye wish to drown your grief, take my advice and visit the ancient town of Crieff. — William Topaz McGonagall Copy Share Image
Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free. — Tammy Bruce Copy Share Image
Two negatives make a positive but only in Scotland do two positives make a negative: aye right. — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
My roots are Scottish. My dad's parents are from Scotland, and my mum's dad is Scots. — Katharine Isabelle Copy Share Image
Scots are Jocks,WelshmenTaffies, and Irishmen Paddies or Micks but?it is noticeable there is no similar designation for the English. — Anna Pavlova Copy Share Image
There is some really good crack when I come back here. This is where I learned to swear. — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
“He gave it the benefit of the doubt; he was Scotch. ("The Wendigo")” — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
The Scots are a very tough people. They have drive-by headbuttings. In Glasgow a sweatband is considered a silencer. — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
Can it be entirely accidental that the most famous fictional spy of them all, James Bond, Number 007, deadly marksman, intriguer, the… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
We Scots have a fierce pride in the things we do that others can never appreciate. I am the British No. 1,… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
Wherever a Scotsman goes, here goes Burns. His grand whole, catholic soul squares with the good of all; therefore we find him… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I've never played Scots or got the chance to do my Scottish accent. I'm always trying it out in auditions, but they… — Callum Keith Rennie Copy Share Image
[Macbeth] is historically set in a place depicted by Shakespeare as brutal and violent, incredibly superstitious, and that's something that I do… — James McAvoy Copy Share Image
Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome to your gory bed, Or to victory! Now 's… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
What happened in the United changing room has happened to me 50 times in my career. I have kicked bottles of mineral… — Marcello Lippi Copy Share Image
If global warming meant temperatures rose by one or two degrees, France would become a desert, which would be no bad thing.… — Michael O'Leary Copy Share Image
... those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded... Sad,… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Scots are born exiles, and Scotland the perfect country to be exiled from. Do not imagine that I am running down Scotland.… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
No Scot ever made a bigger impact on a club than Bill Shankly. Others may claim an equal share of trophies and… — Jock Stein Copy Share Image
“Though the continued march of intellect and education have nearly obliterated from the mind of the Scots a belief in the marvelous,… — James Grant Copy Share Image
For dash and gallantry the bloodthirsty Scots, Australians and Canadians led the way, with the impetuous Irish close behind. The Australian to… — Adrian Carton de Wiart Copy Share Image
Look at me!’ I screeched. ‘Look at me, Amadeus von Linden, you sadistic hypocrite, and watch this time! You’re not questioning me… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
“They saw the Scots coming up out of their burrows like raving women in their skirts, dying in ripples across the yellowish-brown… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
The Scots say that Nature itself dictated that golf should be played by the seashore. Rather, the Scots saw in the eroded… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride; True is the charge, nor by themselves denied. Are they not then in strictest… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
The Danes don't take themselves seriously at all and look for the joke in everything. Us Scots are on the same line… — Jamie Sives Copy Share Image
If you are a Scot living outside of Scotland but still in the UK, you are not allowed to vote in the… — Damian Barr Copy Share Image
That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
Good organization,” said Magnus. “I knew the man who founded it, back in the 1800s. Woolsey Scot. Respectable old werewolf family.” Alec… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Scot McKnight stirs the treasures of our Lord's life in an engaging fashion. He did so with The Jesus Creed, and does… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Whoever heard of such a mixture of languages in one army, since there were French, Flemings, Frisians, Gauls, Sayonards, Lotharingians, Allemani, Bavarians,… — Fulcher of Chartres Copy Share Image
It is one of the most hauntingly beautiful places in the world, the history is fascinating, the men are handsome and the… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
But as a Scot with a lifelong love of Scotland and the arts, I believe the opportunity of independence is too good… — Sean Connery Copy Share Image
Scots they're either nice or they're horrid and these two are horrid. The Scots wont like that Eamon, thats bordering on racism.… — Eamon Dunphy Copy Share Image
I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
If I've got any small role in this matter, it's to say to Scots Americans: under no circumstances make Donald Trump President… — Alex Salmond Copy Share Image
it is not only unfair but disgustingly cruel that the mother is always held responsible for the illegitimate child, while the father… — Dale Evans Copy Share Image
One of my greatest sadnesses at the prospective break-up of the Union is that it will set English, Welsh and Northern Irish… — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
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