O flower of Scotland, when will we see your like again, That fought and died for your wee bit hill and glen And stood against him, proud Edward's army, And sent him homeward tae think again.
Roy WilliamsonAuld Scotland wants nae skinking wareThat jaups in luggies; But, if ye wish her gratefu'prayer, Gie her a Haggis!
Robert BurnsScotland is not wholly surrounded by the seaunfortunately.
GrieveFor 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 GibbonHe canna Scotland see wha yet Canna see the Infinite, And Scotland in true scale to it.
GrieveThe rose of all the world is not for me. I want for my part Only the little white rose of Scotland That smells sharp and sweetand breaks the heart.
GrieveScotland small? Our multiform, infinite Scotland small?
GrieveIf there is writing on Hadrian's Wall, it reads that the English should leave Scotland to its own devices.
Simon HefferI look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.
Rev Sydney SmithThe vice of meanness, condemned in every other country, is in Scotland translated into a virtue called 'thrift'.
David ThomsonA symbol of all that's perfectly hideous about Scotland
Irvine WelshWe usually think that a strong economy leads to an increase in life satisfaction among the population. We found that's not the case in Scotland.
david blanchflowerOatmeal indeed supplies the common people of Scotland with the greatest and best part of their food, which is in general much inferior to that of their neighbours of the same rank in England.
Adam SmithThe Bruce , with which the Scottish contribution to English literature begins, long held its place as the national epic of Scotland.
john barbourEngland may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland.
lydia maria childA Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better than truth.
samuel johnsonSeeing Scotland, Madam, is only seeing a worse England. It is seeing the flower gradually fade away to the naked stalk.
The rose of all the world is not for me. I want for my part Only the little white rose of Scotland That smells sharp and sweet - and breaks the heart.
hugh macdiarmidGive me but one hour of Scotland, Let me see it ere I die.
I'll drink a cup to Scotland yet, Wi' a' the honours three.
Beloved Scotland of the winter and the hills! ’Tis little that thou’lt get from them, but they will make thee hard and brave!
Lyndsay, with all his ancient coarseness…maintained for two centuries, even among the precise, his position as the popular poet of Scotland.
Up wi' the flowers o' Scotland, The emblems o' the free, Their guardians for a thousand years, Their guardians still we'll be. A foe had better brave the de'il Within his reeky cell, Than our thistle's purple bonnet, Or bonny heather bell.
thomas hoodFrom Perth, Scotland