Scots Quotes - Page 5

• There is some really good crack when I come back here. This is where I learned to swear.

  Ewan McGregor

  Scotland, Cracks, Swear

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• [Edinburgh] is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Beautiful, Heart, Light

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• A Scot is a man who keeps the Sabbath, and everything else he can lay his hands on.

  Chic Murray

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• Today a Scot is leading a British army in France [Field Marshall Douglas Haig], another is commanding the British Grand Fleet at sea [Admiral David Beatty], while a third directs the Imperial General Staff at home [Sir William Roberton]. The Lord Chancellor is a Scot [Viscount Finlay]; so are the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Foreign Secretary [Bonar Law and Arthur Balfour]. The Prime Minister is a Welshman [David Lloyd George], and the First Lord of the Admiralty is an Irishman [Lord Carson]. Yet no one has ever brought in a bill to give home rule to England!

  John Hay Beith

  Home, Army, Sea

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• Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.

  Callum Keith Rennie

  Moving, Parent, Canada

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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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• 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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