History Quote by Charles Spurgeon

“The archbishop of St. Andrews threatened that if Knox preached, he would be shot on sight. Knox preached anyway, from Perth to Fife and…

— Douglas Bond

“Father, will justice ever reign in Scotland?”

— Douglas Bond

“We would do well to remember that the great pragmatist William James dedicated his extraordinarily wide-ranging Varieties of Religious Experience to none other than…

— Bart Schultz

“Stephen had never seen a landscape so calculated to reduce the onlooker to utter despair in an instant. “This is one of your kingdoms,…

— Susanna Clarke

“Why are Scots so attracted to the secret world? Smiley wondered, not for the first time in his career. Ships’ engineers, Colonial administrators, spies.…

— John le Carré

“the Act and Testimony—a document which deserves to be placed side by side with the immortal covenants of Scotland;”

— James Henley Thornwell

“The point of this book is that being Scottish is more than just a matter of nationality or place of origin or clan or…

— Arthur Herman

“One of Scotland's most important cultural exports - stories.”

— Sara Sheridan

“And Edinburgh. He was proud of Edinburgh too, and of Scotland; and why not? Why should one not be proud of one's country -…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Friends they were, above all. Not servants. Not soldiers. Not subjects. But friends that I loved and to whom I owed everything. I had…

— N. Gemini Sasson

“Why would anyone want to travel to Scotland? That wild country had nothing to offer but a bunch of unkempt men in kilts waving…

— Victoria Roberts

We don't know anything about Scottish history. All we know is that an American guy painted his face blue and somehow they won.

— Greg Proops