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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland? — Walter Scott
There is some really good crack when I come back here. This is where I learned to swear. — Ewan McGregor
[Macbeth] is historically set in a place depicted by Shakespeare as brutal and violent, incredibly superstitious, and that's something that I do believe is Scottish. — James McAvoy
In Scotland, when people congregate, they tend to argue and discuss and reason; in Orkney, they tell stories. — George Mackay Brown
Touch his head, and he will bargain and argue with you to the last; Touch his heart, and he falls upon your breast. — Andrew Carnegie
Scotland small? Our multiform, infinite Scotland SMALL? — Hugh MacDiarmid
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
Two negatives make a positive but only in Scotland do two positives make a negative: aye right. — Frankie Boyle
God help England if she had no Scots to think for her. — George Bernard Shaw
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
The poetic side of me is Scottish. — Annie Lennox
[Edinburgh] is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again. — Alexander McCall Smith
Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country. — Arthur Balfour
You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas. — James M. Barrie
Give me but one hour of Scotland, Let me see it ere I die. — William Edmondstoune Aytoun
The "second sight" possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe they possess this gift because they don't… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Scotland is a great nation, but its horses are very uncomfortable. — Mel Gibson
I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of… — Edward Irving
The Evangelical party in the Church of Scotland will lay all flat if they be not prevented. — Edward Irving
America changed my life, but I still think of home and working in Scotland was an important part of that. — Davy Jones
My place in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, so you've just got a keyboard, guitar, a little drum machine and you know if… — Jay Kay
I was born in Scotland and have lived there all my life. I speak conversational Cantonese with my dad when I'm at home, and very… — Katie Leung
The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not… — George Orwell
What if in Scotland's wilds we viel'd our head, Where tempests whistle round the sordid bed; Where the rug's two-fold use we might display, By… — Oliver Goldsmith
The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride; True is the charge, nor by themselves denied. Are they not then in strictest reason clear, Who… — Charles Churchill

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