Scotland Quotes · Page 7

Scotland needs comedy more than ever. With the independence debate, finally after 300 years, reaching room temperature.

— Rory Bremner

No matter where it is or who it's against, I will always be available for Scotland as long as I am fit.

— John McGinn

For me as leader my time is nearly over but for Scotland the campaign continues and the dream will never die,

— Alex Salmond

I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Scotland is free!

— William Wallace

Scotland is a great country and many wonderful things have come out of this country, however England gets the glory.

— Joseph Hume

I firmly believe that Scotland's place is in the U.K., and I do not believe in powers for power's sake.

— Johann Lamont

In any normal season, most of the teams below Chelsea would think they are doing quite well.

— Alex Ferguson

Scotland really is a spectacularly beautiful country with so much history. I always go to Culzean Castle in Ayrshire.

— Susan Eisenhower

Pretty much every artist in Scotland - musician, writer, poet, actor - they're all part of a thing called the National Collective.

— Roddy Woomble

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

When I had other things to deal with in my personal life, people were telling me to come and play for Scotland.…

— Robert Snodgrass

My political awakening, if I can be as grand as to call it that, was all about what was happening around me.…

— Nicola Sturgeon

For 3 million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could hand…

— Frankie Boyle

“Aye, it could', Ian added. 'It's many a time when I've walked alone on the misty moors of Scotland, the fog creeping…

— Terri Reid

I'm kind of obsessed by Everest and all those men that mountaineer and take themselves to extreme limits. Having gone back to…

— Sam Heughan

Secessionists, whether in Scotland, Catalonia, Quebec or anywhere else, invariably assume that a person must either be Scottish or British, Catalan or…

— Michael Ignatieff

Nothing is forever, and I do still talk about when I'll come back to Britain. I'd love to come back and do…

— Ashley Jensen

“Coorie's newfound role has been helped along by the fact it is a beautiful word. Derived from Old Scots, there is something…

— Gabriella Bennett

Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record,…

— John Stuart Mill

I'm interested in Scotland now and then, how it's changed. I want to get the reader to think about that by thinking…

— Ian Rankin

“Note savages, eh? They live in mountain caves and dress like wild men. They walk about in woolen petticoats, which they are…

— Marsha Canham

Whatever Scotland was, it was not a matriarchy; whereas the United States was a profoundly matriarchal society - and much more feminine…

— Alexander McCall Smith

A couple of taxi drivers have asked me if we can survive financially as an independent nation. I say, how come we…

— Eddi Reader

“The lass was no damsel. He’d prepared himself for a hard sell, one that might require a few extra knee-weakening smiles, perhaps…

— Kerrigan Byrne

I attempted to fish in Scotland and I managed to hook a dog. It was a horrible moment but the dog turned…

— Emily Blunt

When the Vikings moved into a place they just kind of killed everybody who was there before them.

— Jon Gnarr

The Vikings colonized Britain, and a lot of our modern day towns are named after Viking names that settled these big towns.

— George Blagden

There's nothing quite like a Scotch education. One is left with an irreparable debt. My head is full of irregular verbs still.

— Ivor Cutler

“Hardship bred a bitter, quickfire humour and resilience to all but the most terminal of life's tragedies.”

— Ian Rankin

“God, can you imagine what discovering the Loch Ness Monster would do to Luke's ego?”

— Jacqueline E. Smith

There's a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing.

— Sean Connery

“Hannah Rose Brown was not quite 13 years old when she discovered her family was cursed. THE PUZZLE RING”

— Kate Forsyth

Social injustice is what puts Scotland at its greatest disadvantage, and restoring the 50p tax rate will start to fight that.

— Johann Lamont

As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland.

— Donald Trump

“I haven’t even been here an hour and already, Edinburgh is the city of my dreams.”

— Jacqueline E. Smith

“Edinburgh is a great big black bastard of a city where there are ghosts of all kinds.”

— Sara Sheridan

I want to play for Scotland at a major tournament, that is the dream and the drive for me.

— John McGinn

Scotland: That garret of the earth - that knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur.

— Sydney Smith

In Scotland, when people congregate, they tend to argue and discuss and reason; in Orkney, they tell stories.

— George Mackay Brown

Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence.

— James Hogg