Glasgow Quotes
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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.
— 1965 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— 1934 Scottish Scene,'Glasgow' (with Hugh MacDiarmid).
Glasgow, the sort of industrial city where most people live nowadays but nobody imagines living.
— 1981Lanark, bk.3, ch.11.
A group from Glasgow sought in 1891 to purchase his portrait of Thomas Carlyle was shocked that Whistler's price was 1000 guineas. A spokesman countered that the portrait was not even life size. Whistler replied, "But, you know, few men are life size."
Whistler— Tom Prideaux and Time-Life Books, The World of Whistler (1970)
In the middle of the last century there was comparatively little movement of workmen from place to place:;; but Adam Smith's fierce attack on the law of settlement shows that migration was on the increase. The world was, in fact, on the eve of an industrial revolution:;; and it is interesting to remember that the two men who did most to bring it about, Adam Smith and James Watt, met, as I have mentioned, in Glasgow, when one was dreaming of the book, and the other of the invention, which were to introduce a new industrial age.
Arnold Toynbee— Arnold Toynbee, Lectures on the industrial revolution of the 18th century in England. (1894) p. 189
