Scotsmen Quotes
16 quotes by 15 authors
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
— James M. Barrie
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Being a Scotsman, I am naturally opposed to water in its undiluted state.
— Alastair Mackenzie
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not…
— Samuel Johnson
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Three Scotsmen of the clan McKay were looking for a fourth member to fight four members of the Irish clan Magee ... 'I'm not one…
— Winsor McCay
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Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and…
— William Dunbar
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In the year of our Lord 1314. Patriots of Scotland, starving and outnumbered, charged the fields of Bannockburn. They fought like warrior poets. They fought…
— William Wallace
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This day last year Livingstone died-a Scotsman and a Christian, loving God and his neighbour in the heart of Africa. Go thou and do likewise!
— Alexander Murdoch Mackay
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Only a Scotsman can really survive a Scottish education.
— Prince Philip
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It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a…
— Sean Connery
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A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth.
— Samuel Johnson
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There are things that Scotsmen get and other people don't get in the dialogue. Scottish characters can be pinpointed by a phrase, targeted very quickly.
— Bill Forsyth
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Wherever a Scotsman goes, here goes Burns. His grand whole, catholic soul squares with the good of all; therefore we find him in everything, everywhere.
— John Muir
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My father, being a Scotsman, taught me to look after finances. I'm shrewd. Some people may call me tight.
— Rod Stewart
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Scotsmen, she had occasion to observe, often did have nice knees. Perhaps that was why they insisted upon kilts.
— Gail Carriger
Who Wrote These Scotsmen Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 16 Scotsmen Quotes as follows: