Scots Quotes

76 Scots quotes by 68 unique authors

But as a Scot with a lifelong love of Scotland and the arts, I believe the opportunity of independence is too good to miss. Simply… — Sean Connery
This is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of... well, my grandfather was a minister and… — Alan Hovhaness
If global warming meant temperatures rose by one or two degrees, France would become a desert, which would be no bad thing. The Scots would… — Michael O'Leary
Nobody thought Mel Gibson could play a Scot, but look at him now! Alcoholic and a racist! — Frankie Boyle
It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing… — Callum Keith Rennie
I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in… — Ian Rankin
The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots. — Sean Connery
No one leaves a long-term relationship scot-free or without conflict. — Susie Orbach
I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look… — Ralph Fiennes
Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special. — Antonia Fraser
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
I come from a very critical culture. You know the Scots. They're always saying: 'Oh, no. It will never work. You'll never amount to anything.… — Craig Ferguson

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