Scottish Quotes - Page 5

• I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love a good show.

  Jeanette MacDonald

  Temper, Shows, Thrift

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Scottish Theatre's greatest success story of recent times.

  Alan Chadwick

  Theatre, Stories, Greatest Success

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• I am Michael, and I am part English, Irish, German, and Scottish, sort of a virtual United Nations.

  Michael Scott

  United Nations, United, Nations

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• The settled will of the Scottish people.

  John Smith

  People

  1994 Of the creation of a Scottish parliament, in a speech at the Scottish Labour Conference,11 Mar.

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• I look forward to a time when Irish patriotism will as easily combine with British patriotism as Scottish patriotism combines now.

  Arthur Balfour

  Looks, British

  1889 Speech, Glasgow, Dec.

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• If you aim at a Scottish presbytery, it agreeth as well with monarchy, as God and the devil. ... No bishop, no King! I will make them conform themselves, or else I will harry them out of the land, or else do worse.

  King James I

  Kings, Land, Devil

  Speaking of the Puritans at Hampton Court Conference, January 16, 1604.

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• Who invented political tolerance? The English invented it, it's something which has taken roots with some difficulty in Scottish politics.

  Neal Ascherson

  Taken, Roots, Political

  "Is Britishness a generous thing, or has it damaged England?". www.opendemocracy.net. January 17, 2012.

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

  Edwin Muir

  Mean, Mind, Literature

  1936 Scott and Scotland, introduction.

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• It can fairly be said of John Smith that he had all the virtues of a Scottish presbyterian, but none of the vices.

  Menzies Campbell

  Vices, Virtue, John Smith

  Menzies Campbell (2008). “Menzies Campbell: My Autobiography”

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• But when I saw the cursive grace of Guido Rahr's fly line writing prayers I couldn't read to the river gods of Outer Mongolia, I knew my name was written there too. Fly fishing was going to be my version of my father's sport, my nod to my Scottish ancestors and to my self, and to the fish crazed part of America I had claimed as my own.

  Jessica Maxwell

  Sports, Prayer, Father

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• I have several Scottish Terriers. I find them to be the most wonderful dogs.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dog, Rama, Wonderful

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• Human beings are many-layered creatures, and do not succumb to the hegemony of others as easily as historians and politicians sometimes imply. Those Welsh, Scottish and Anglo-Irish individuals who became part of the British Establishment in this period did not in the main sell out in the sense of becoming Anglicised look-alikes. Instead, they became British in a new and intensely profitable fashion, while remaining in their own minds and behavior Welsh, or Scottish, or Irish aswell.

  Linda Colley

  Fashion, Mind, Hegemony

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• It's all about the climate. I had a long discussion about it when I went to Scotland to see Andy Roxburgh. I worked with a Scottish youth side and had them do the same drills I would do in Italy. I realised that, between the wind, the rain and the cold, there was no way they could do it. How can you possibly teach anybody anything in those conditions? To me, it's pretty obvious and it explains why Brazilians are more technical than Europeans and, in Italy, the further south you go the more technical they are.

  Fabio Capello

  Soccer, Football, Rain

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• Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond, and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.

  Idris Elba

  Blue, Black, Want

  "Idris Elba: The Man Who Is Luther, Was Stringer, And Could Be James Bond". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 28, 2011.

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• The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.

  Camille Paglia

  Intellectual, Style, Encounters

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• Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

  Walter Scott

  Adversity, Dark, Lakes

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• Everyone still thinks I'm Scottish - that's totally wicked.

  Ed Sheeran

  Thinking, Wicked, Stills

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

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• I do not believe the picture that some people paint of Scottish towns dependent on welfare. Every time I come here, I meet people who are determined to get into work. Who, with the right help are desperate to get off benefits, support their family and set an example for their children.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Children, Believe, People

  "An independent Scotland could not pay welfare bill, says Iain Duncan Smith". www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2012.

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• Mind you, if a blockbuster movie was offered, I wouldn't say no. I can do accents - I don't always have to be Scottish.

  Ashley Jensen

  Mind, Accents, Blockbuster

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• I may be a werewolf and Scottish, but despite what you may have read about both, we are not cads!

  Gail Carriger

  May, Cad, Werewolf

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• Francesca: It's still a bit cold yet. Michael: Never stopped John and me. Francesca: Yes, well, you're Scottish. Your blood circulates quite well half frozen.

  Julia Quinn

  Blood, Half, Frozen

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• Some time ago a little-known Scottish philosopher wrote a book on what makes nations succeed and what makes them fail. The Wealth of Nations is still being read today. With the same perspicacity and with the same broad historical perspective, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson have retackled this same question for our own times. Two centuries from now our great-great- . . . -great grandchildren will be, similarly, reading Why Nations Fail.

  George Akerlof

  Book, Reading, Grandchildren

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• Because of my pride in my Scottish heritage, I used to say things like 'I don't mind buying a round of drinks but I don't buy two'. It was something I joked about which has come back to bite me on the ----. I'm shrewd about money, I invest well, and look after it. But it's in my nature to be generous. I look after people.

  Rod Stewart

  Pride, Two, People

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• The turn from this end [despair] to a new beginning came from three things. A blooming cherry tree, the unexpected kindness of Scottish workers and their families, and the Bible.

  Jürgen Moltmann

  Kindness, New Beginnings, Tree

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• 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.

  Alan Hovhaness

  Mother, New York, Scotland

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