Glasgow quotes

   The trouble with Freud is that he never had to play the old Glasgow Empire on a Saturday night after Rangers and Celtic had both lost.

- Ken(neth) Dodd
  Television interview, discussing Freud's theory of catharsis through laughter, whereby jokes produce a feeling of elation.

For the cleansing of that horror, if cleanse it they could, I would welcome the English in suzerainty over Scotland till the end of time. I would welcome the end of Braid Scots and Gaelic, our culture, our history, our nationhood under the heels of a Chinese army of occupation if it could cleanse the Glasgow slums, give a surety of food and playthe elementary right of every human beingto those people of the abyss†

- Lewis Grassic Gibbon
  Scottish Scene,'Glasgow' (with Hugh MacDiarmid).

Glasgow, the sort of industrial city where most people live nowadays but nobody imagines living.

- AlasdairJames Gray
Lanark, bk.3, ch.11.