I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't…

I like '28 Days Later,' because I feel like it's really British.

— Ellie Rowsell

I venture to claim two qualifications for the great office which I hold, which to my mind, without making invidious distinctions, is one of…

— Joseph Chamberlain

Ah, Scotland. I am three-parts Scottish and terribly proud of it, although maybe we should divide it into eighths, because my two-eighths are Danish…

— Joanna Lumley

I remember I was really into this British band, The Vapors, with that song "Turning Japanese." I thought that they were really next level…

— Craig Finn

Since I was 12 or 13, I have been taking movie meetings finding a project right for me because I wanted to try it.…

— Charlotte Church

The music that I first fell in love with was American music, really. Nothing against British acts - I love them and will forever…

— George Ezra

Scottish-Americans tell you that if you want to identify tartans, it's easy - you simply look under the kilt, and if it's a quarter-pounder,…

— Billy Connolly

I think most of the world would like to be Scottish. All the Americans who come here never look for English blood or Welsh,…

— Joanna Lumley

British women can be slightly more reserved; Scottish are a little more crazy and fun, and American are more forthright, which I really enjoy.

— Sam Heughan

I only started concentrating on football as a career when I left school at 18. I played golf for the Scottish and British boys' teams.

— Alan Hansen

The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain…

— Camille Paglia

I think as English people, we don't want to be reminded that at one point we ruled three-quarters of the globe, and now we're…

— Jamie Bell

It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to…

— George Bernard Shaw

While we like to think queueing is unique to British culture, the truth is that we are mere amateurs. The old Soviet Union turned…

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.

— Anonymous