Comedy Quote by Horace Walpole

A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth.

— Samuel Johnson

The curse of Scottish literature is the lack of a whole language, which finally means the lack of a whole mind.

— Edwin Muir

For God's sake bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country.

— Reginald Maudling

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

“The Scotch, it is well known, are more remarkable for the exercise of their intellectual powers, than for the keenness of their feelings ;…

— Walter Scott

They have a plentiful lack of wit.

— William Shakespeare

Scotland needs comedy more than ever. With the independence debate, finally after 300 years, reaching room temperature.

— Rory Bremner

Deprived of the company of fools, a great wit does not seem half so clever.

— Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.

— Anonymous

I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have…

— Norman Douglas

It's ironic that the growth of Scottish nationalism has precipitated in the English the sort of hand-wringing the Scots have always done over who…

— Irvine Welsh

We seem to have lost our British sense of humour. It's a great shame. We have to be so careful nowadays; we have lost…

— David Jason