Scottish Quotes · Page 4

We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.

— Voltaire

Being Scottish is something you have in your heart not something that comes off your tongue.

— Angus Macfadyen

I have a difficult time doing an Irish accent; even now, it kind of fades slowly into Scottish.

— Robin Williams

I like Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist.

— Billy Connolly

I have massive respect for Ricky Burns. He has put Scottish boxing back on the map.

— Josh Taylor

I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.

— Carice van Houten

“Listen to the earth, Feel the fire. Allow the power to flow through ye.”

— Jean M. Grant

“Apply restrictions on people with vision and their desire to make doesn't just endure. It flourishes.”

— Gabriella Bennett

[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

Who invented political tolerance? The English invented it, it's something which has taken roots with some difficulty in Scottish politics.

— Neal Ascherson

I wanted to be able to support myself without begging for handouts from the state. All of the writers I knew when…

— Ian Rankin

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

— Billy Connolly

My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.

— Sam Heughan

'Cullum' is Scottish, but I'm nowhere near Scottish. My mother is Burmese, and my father is of German, Jewish, English ancestry.

— Jamie Cullum

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

— Ian Rankin

It can fairly be said of John Smith that he had all the virtues of a Scottish presbyterian, but none of the…

— Menzies Campbell

I love the 6 Nations rugby. I feel very Scottish then. I feel very Scottish now, sitting in the middle of Chelsea.…

— Rory Bremner

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

— Camille Paglia

Because of my pride in my Scottish heritage, I used to say things like 'I don't mind buying a round of drinks…

— Rod Stewart

Scottish men of a certain age have a black response to almost everything as a measure of how sophisticated they are. I…

— Peter Capaldi

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

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

— Gwenn Wright

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

— Joanna Lumley

“An exaltation of spirit lifted me, as it were, far above the earth and the sinful creatures crawling on its surface; and…

— James Hogg

Her honor will come to no harm at my hands,” Jack said. “’Tis not her honor but her tender heart that I…

— Karen Hawkins

I knew Richard E. Grant, and I went to him and said "Would you like to [play Kafka in the film]?" and…

— Peter Capaldi

“Ciaran broke the silence and spoke quietly. "She means naught to me." A tear fell down her cheek and she wiped it…

— Victoria Roberts Temptation in a Kilt

“5. Thou must set the scene with tunes. Road trips aren't the only time a decent playlist is required. How we consume…

— Gabriella Bennett

The acting I got into by doing what we call pantomime, when I was sixteen. And, there were loads of very pretty…

— Peter Mullan

“I [...] suggest considering Byron as a Scottish poet – I say ’Scottish’, not ’Scots’, since he wrote in English. The one…

— T.S. Eliot

“So, teaching him only that which she loved, not that which she had been taught, Janet read to Gibbie of Jesus, and…

— George MacDonald

It's hard for us sophisticates to believe, but the people my parents worked for were good people. They were socialists of the…

— Lore Segal

On my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin.

— Tamsin Greig

I've always loved the fans in Scotland and have a little Scottish blood of my own.

— Dolly Parton

Folk songs in general, I like. The old spooky Scottish folk songs.

— Alasdair MacLean

I like Dali and Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist.

— Billy Connolly

I feel Scottish when with English people, and when I'm with Scottish people, I realise I'm English.

— Nina Conti

“Am I on your walk of shame? You did sleep with the right MacGregor, didn’t you?”

— Michelle M. Pillow

I'm Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American.

— Alan Cumming

“My energies have been drained. Masturbating too much will do that.”

— Michelle M. Pillow