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“And therefore we abhor and detest all contrary religion and doctrine; but chiefly all kind of Papistry in general and particular heads, even as…

— Various

“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

“Father, will justice ever reign in Scotland?”

— Douglas Bond

“Alexander (at the trial of Philotas): How much happier to have fallen in the fighting, felled by a foe, rather than die by a…

— Andrew Chugg

“I will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and enthusiastically religous.…

— Mark Twain

There is something so quiet and so industrious, something so Viking about the Scots.

— Joanna Lumley

“will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious, and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and enthusiastically religious. Nothing…

— Mark Twain

“But I do like Scotland. I like the miserable weather. I like the miserable people, the fatalism, the negativity, the violence that's always just…

— James Robertson

With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

— Oliver Goldsmith

“Scotsmen are not the type to back down easily, even if an Amazonian bisexual is screaming for compliance and threatening death by green fire…

— A. Michael Schwarz

“When John Knox went upstairs to plead with God for Scotland, it was the greatest event in Scottish history.”

— Charles Spurgeon

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth…

— William Dunbar