laird quotes

The laird o'Cockpen, he's proud an' he's great, His mind is ta'en up wi' things o'the State.

- Caroline, Lady Nairne
'The Laird o' Cockpen', stanza1.

He that steals a cow from a poor widow, or a stirk from a cottar, is a thief; he that lifts a drove from a Sassenach laird, is a gentleman-drover. And, besides, to take a tree from the forest, a salmon from the river, a deer from the hill, or a cow from a Lowland strath, is what no Highlander need ever think shame upon.

- Sir Walter Scott
  Evan Dhu Maccombich to EdwardWaverley.Waverley, ch.18.