Scots Quotes

• I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots make to Britain's success - so for me there's no question about whether Scotland could be an independent nation.

  David Cameron

  Independent, Hands, Scotland

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• God help England if she had no Scots to think for her.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Thinking, Scotland, England

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.3448, e-artnow

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• Scotland small? Our multiform, infinite Scotland SMALL?

  Hugh MacDiarmid

  Scotland, Infinite

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• [Macbeth] is historically set in a place depicted by Shakespeare as brutal and violent, incredibly superstitious, and that's something that I do believe is Scottish.

  James McAvoy

  Believe, Scotland, Scottish

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• In Scotland, when people congregate, they tend to argue and discuss and reason; in Orkney, they tell stories.

  George Mackay Brown

  Scotland, People, Stories

  George Mackay Brown (1990). “George Mackay Brown: fiction - poetry - reviews : Stewart Conn, Tom Scott, Luis Ceruuda”

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• You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas.

  James M. Barrie

  Men, Race, Wind

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• Touch his head, and he will bargain and argue with you to the last; Touch his heart, and he falls upon your breast.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Fall, Heart, Scotland

  Andrew Carnegie, Margaret Barclay Wilson (1915). “A Carnegie Anthology”

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• But as a Scot with a lifelong love of Scotland and the arts, I believe the opportunity of independence is too good to miss. Simply put there is no more creative an act than creating a new nation.

  Sean Connery

  Art, Believe, Opportunity

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• The Scots are a very tough people. They have drive-by headbuttings. In Glasgow a sweatband is considered a silencer.

  Emo Philips

  People, Tough, Glasgow

  "Emo Philips" by Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

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• 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

  Country, Scotland, Needs

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• I would rather have a Scot come from Scotland togovern the people of this kingdom well and justly, than that you should govern them ill in the sight of all the world.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Sight, Scotland, People

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• Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?

  Walter Scott

  Fighting, Land, Patriotism

  Walter Scott, John Gibson Lockhart (1839). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Comprising Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border ...”, p.408

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• Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome to your gory bed, Or to victory! Now 's the day and now 's the hour; See the front o' battle lour.

  Robert Burns

  Victory, Battle, Bed

  'Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn' (1799) (also known as 'Scots, Wha Hae')

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• The mark of a Scot of all classes [is that] he ... remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or bad; and there burns alive in him a sense of identity with the dead even to the twentieth generation.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Memories, Class, Scotland

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.1818, Delphi Classics

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• Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.

  Winston Churchill

  Scotland, Greek, Earth

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• There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.

  Billy Connolly

  Travel, Winter, Scotland

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• Two negatives make a positive but only in Scotland do two positives make a negative: aye right.

  Frankie Boyle

  Negatives Make, Scotland, Two

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• Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year.

  E. O. Wilson

  Years, Humanity, Dollars

  "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" with Kim Lawton, www.pbs.org. November 17, 2006.

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• The Scots will do anything to beat the English or just to see them lose, but I've never bought into that really.

  Gerard Butler

  Beats, Loses

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• The Scots are subsidy junkies whingeing like a trampled bagpipe as they wait for their next fix of English taxpayers' money.

  Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

  Waiting, Next, Bagpipes

  "Christopher Monckton and his support for subsidies to Scotland" by Angus McLeod, Sunday Mail, April 16, 1995.

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• We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.

  Voltaire

  Scotland, Ideas, Looks

  Voltaire (1976). “Candide”, p.119, Lulu.com

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• 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?

  Charles Churchill

  Pride, Scotland, Cry

  Charles Churchill, George Gilfillan (1855). “The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan”, p.68

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• A lot of Scots have settled in Canada over the years and it's a very easy place for Scots - they understand us, we understand them.

  Robert Carlyle

  Years, Canada, Easy

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins.

  James Reston

  Sports, Golf, Men

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• Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It’s all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing.

  Billy Boyd

  Land, Scottish, Enjoy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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