Scotland Quotes
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He's taking over at the worst time, because Scotland are sitting so proudly at the top of their group. There's only one way they can go - they can either stay there or go the other way. (Quote by - Craig Brown)
But I fear, my lot being cast in Scotland, that beauty would not be content. (Quote by - Anne Boyd)
One of the attractive things about being in Scotland is that we have a very good pipeline of new people coming into the company from the excellent universities around us. (Quote by - David Milne)
Anybody who is thinking of applying for the Scotland job in the next eight or nine years should go get themselves checked out by about 15 psychiatrists. (Quote by - Martin O'Neill)
There are two seasons in Scotland - Winter and July. (Quote by - Billy Connelly)
The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border. (Quote by - Goldwin Smith)
It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse. It's a cliche, but it's said that people who read my books don't read any other books, and you do get that element. (Quote by - Irvine Welsh)
England have got the best fans in the world - and Scotland's fans are undoubtedly second to none! (Quote by - Kevin Keegan)
The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad. (Quote by - George Orwell)
It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding. (Quote by - Sydney Smith)
There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make. (Quote by - J M Barrie)
I was born in London, and went to school in Scotland - I used to be dead tired when I got home at night. (Quote by - Norman Wisdom)
It's guid to be merry and wise, It's guid to be honest and true, It's guid to support Caledonia's cause, And bide by the buff and the blue! (Quote by - Robert Burns)
In all my travels I never met with any one Scotchman but what was a man of sense. I believe everybody of that country that has any, leaves it as fast as they can. (Quote by - Francis Lockier)
I'm embarrassed, the players are embarrassed, maybe all Scotland is embarrassed. (Quote by - Berti Vogts)
If it came to singing the national anthems, I'd probably sing both of them. (Quote by - Terry Butcher)
A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea. (Quote by - Catherine Helen Spence)
Our aim is to give Scotland an economic edge by reducing the taxes and burdens on wealth creators and making Scotland the most competitive of the current UK nations. (Quote by - Stewart Hosie)
There's a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing. (Quote by - Sean Connery)
The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high-road that leads him to England. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Scotland is the Canada of England! (Quote by - Rainn Wilson)
I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff. (Quote by - Ewan McGregor)
It was late in the afternoon in the spring of the year 1630; the hilltops of the south of Scotland were covered with masses of cloud, and a fierce wind swept the driving rain before it with such force that it was not easy to make way against it. (Quote by - George Alfred Henty)
We're in danger of going down the same road as Scotland and becoming a second division team. (Quote by - Graham Taylor)
Now the summer's in prime Wi' the flowers richly blooming, And the wild mountain thyme A' the moorlands perfuming. To own dear native scenes Let us journey together, Where glad innocence reigns 'Mang the braes o' Balquhither. (Quote by - Robert Tannahill)
I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland. (Quote by - Sydney Smith)
I fell in love with Scotland and made good friends here, so I stayed after graduating with Honours in Chemistry. (Quote by - Steve Blake)
I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition. (Quote by - Loretta Lynn)
That garret of the earth--that knuckle end of England--that land of Calvin, oatcakes and sulphur. (Quote by - Sydney Smith)
It is time we in Scotland put England in its proper place and instead of our leaning on England and taking inspiration from her, we should lean and turn to Europe, for it is there our future prosperity lies. (Quote by - Hugh MacDiarmid)
My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some of whom had come over from Scotland. (Quote by - Alan Hovhaness)
We are also fortunate in being in quite a sheltered environment, in terms of people moving on to do other things, because there are relatively few companies in Scotland that are looking for the skill set that we've developed. (Quote by - David Milne)
When you hear someone from the very north of Scotland speaking, I think its nice, very musical and harmonious. (Quote by - Sean Connery)
O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand! (Quote by - Sir Walter Scott)
In short, he and the Scotch have no way of redeeming the credit of their understandings, but by avowing that they have been consummate villains. Stavano bene; per star meglio, stanno qui. (Quote by - Horace Walpole)
Sadly it looks like Scotland and Italy at the bottom again. (Quote by - Andy Nicol)
The Navy's paid for you to go through school, and then they need doctors to go out and take care of people who are in various different parts of the world. I decided to pay back my time first as an undersea medical officer. I was stationed in Scotland. (Quote by - Laurel Clark)
I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but to join the Navy, having left school at 13. (Quote by - Sean Connery)
James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster. (Quote by - Charlotte Mary Yonge)
I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it. (Quote by - Edward Irving)
The Evangelical party in the Church of Scotland will lay all flat if they be not prevented. (Quote by - Edward Irving)
All was well, until I reached the port of Havre. Three officers with the rank of lieutenant, whom afterwards I knew to be Scotland Yard men, came aboard and demanded to see my papers which they took away from me. (Quote by - Philip Gibbs)
Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Give me but one hour of Scotland, Let me see it ere I die. (Quote by - William Edmondstoune Aytoun)
The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others. (Quote by - Edward Irving)
For me, pressure is bird flu. I'm feeling a lot of pressure with the problem in Scotland. It's not fun and I'm more scared of it than football. (Quote by - Jose Mourinho)
I loved being in Trainspotting and having to dive into the filthiest toilet in Scotland. (Quote by - Ewan McGregor)
Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand! (Quote by - Sir Walter Scott)
Hear, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots, Frae Maidenkirk to Johnie Groat's;- If there's a hole in a' your coats, I rede you tent it: A chield's amang you takin notes, And, faith, he'll prent it. (Quote by - Robert Burns)
The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride; True is the charge, nor by themselves denied. Are they not then in strictest reason clear, Who wisely come to mend their fortunes here? (Quote by - Charles Churchill)
The major factor in this decision has been the disgraceful abuse that I have suffered. (Quote by - Berti Vogts)
The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards. (Quote by - Billy Connolly)
Scotland is a great country and many wonderful things have come out of this country, however England gets the glory. (Quote by - Joseph Hume)
A pickled egg is regarded as sophisticated in Scotland. (Quote by - Stephen Oliver)
Iceland, though it lies so far to the north that it is partly within the Arctic Circle, is, like Norway, Scotland, and Ireland, affected by the Gulf Stream, so that considerable portions of it are quite habitable. (Quote by - Harry Johnston)
In Scotland, there is no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes. (Quote by - Billy Connelly)
There is a one woman in China that claimed she paid $50 to get my e-mail address. It was pretty shocking. I got one this morning from Scotland. A girl's requesting a signed photo of me. (Quote by - Michael Phelps)
Bring thou this fiend of Scotland and myself; Within my sword's length set him; if he 'scape, Heaven forgive him too! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs. (Quote by - Robert Burns)
Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom Nor forced him wander, but confine him home. (Quote by - John Cleveland)
My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life. (Quote by - Maria Monk)
It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea. (Quote by - Charles Lyell)
There is one woman in China that claimed she paid $50 to get my e-mail address. It was pretty shocking. I got one this morning from Scotland. A girl's requesting a signed photo of me. (Quote by - Michael Phelps)
Only 4 percent of all the companies owned in Scotland have their head offices in Scotland. (Quote by - Sean Connery)
Much may be made of a Scotsman if he be caught young. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Scotland is free! (Quote by - William Wallace)
I believe that the Union Flag should change now to reflect the four nations of the United Kingdom - England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. (Quote by - Ian Lucas)
That knuckle-end of England--that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and sulphur. (Quote by - Sydney Smith)
While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland. (Quote by - George Combe)
Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence. (Quote by - James Hogg)
I think it's a healthy development and I think that what we are seeing taking place in terms of the progress of the Liberal Democrats right across the land - in Scotland, Wales and right through England - is something to celebrate. (Quote by - Charles Kennedy)
There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic. (Quote by - Sean Connery)
