Scotland Quotes · Page 6

[About a tiresome colleague]: He could bore for Scotland.

— Ian Rankin

I did a couple of short films when I was in Scotland.

— John Tiffany

I think Scotland has some great stories.

— Billy Boyd

I am from Scotland and moved down to London when I was 21.

— Ncuti Gatwa

There's not many people that look like me in Scotland.

— Ncuti Gatwa

Scotland is undoubtedly the star of 'Outlander.' I'm so proud of the country and all it has to offer.

— Sam Heughan

The Vikings were the last people to fight with axes, which must have been horrible.

— Travis Fimmel

People in Scotland don't take too kindly to being lectured by a Tory Chancellor.

— Nicola Sturgeon

The U.K.'s debt belongs legally to Westminster, so Scotland, by definition, can't default on it.

— Nicola Sturgeon

Climate Change led to the Vikings dominating Europe for several hundred years.

— Morgan Griffith

Labour's support in Scotland depends on their ability to be electable. If they are divided and unelectable, what's the point?

— Nicola Sturgeon

It's been such a special feeling pulling on that Scotland jersey since I was 16 years old.

— Robert Snodgrass

Only 4 percent of all the companies owned in Scotland have their head offices in Scotland.

— Sean Connery

I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because…

— Hugh Laurie

I am William Wallace... And the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them there that Scotland's…

— William Wallace

For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Everything I have done or attempted to do for Scotland has always been for her benefit, never my own and I defy…

— Sean Connery

I am very aware of how warmly Scotland is regarded around the world, and a vote for self-determination would raise our international…

— Ken Stott

We Slovenians are even better misers than you Scottish. You know how Scotland began? One of us Slovenians was spending too much…

— Slavoj Žižek

I love that Viking era, but also they're a fatalistic people and that dictated their fearlessness in battle and approach to life.

— Chris Hemsworth

I came from a poor family. My father was from Glasgow, Scotland; my mother's brothers were brakemen on the railroad. We didn't…

— Mickey Rooney

Now I want you to listen to me," he said in a low voice, taking her chin in his hand and forcing…

— Julia Quinn

“A story that began with, and exists because of, my love of the remoter parts of Scotland, where the bones of the…

— Neil Gaiman

I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective…

— Ian Rankin

I love that Viking era, but also they're a fatalistic people and that dictated their fearlessness in battle and approach to life.…

— Chris Hemsworth

It was beguiling to live in a country, Scotland, that didn't look enough like itself to be a location for its own…

— Andrew O'Hagan

We do have a big kind of history in literate tradition of Vikings and we have a lot of Viking blood in…

— Craig Ferguson

“I had turned to leave and he had called after me. “Miss Maria, I kin no other woman who could be wearing…

— Gwenn Wright

In the ninth and tenth centuries the Vikings invaded Britain from Scandinavia and settled in large numbers. Their language, which we call…

— Larry Trask

I was born in Cambridgeshire and moved to Scotland when I was seven.

— Louise Wilson

He is improving all the time. He is only 21 and who knows what he is capable of. (on Cristiano Ronaldo)

— Alex Ferguson

Scotland is a great nation, but its horses are very uncomfortable.

— Mel Gibson

The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.

— Caitriona Balfe

I lived for a year in Scotland. British sign language is very different from American.

— I. King Jordan

In Scotland, the indication is that for the Westminster elections at least, Labour voters are satisfied with their government.

— Lucy Powell

Witches were burned and killed in Scotland and England for centuries before what happened in Salem.

— Janet Montgomery

“An I mo chridhe, I mo ghraidh. - In Iona that is my heart's desire, Iona that is my love.”

— Saint Columba

I still love going back to Celtic Park now, whether it's for Celtic or Scotland games, and seeing the atmosphere.

— Robert Snodgrass

It's Brazil 2 Scotland 1, so Scotland are back where they were at the start of the match

— Barry Davies

People in Scotland want the parliament but don't give a toss about the elections.

— Irvine Welsh