Scotland Quotes
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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 Williamson— 1968 'Flower of Scotland', stanza 1. Unofficial Anthem of Scotland, performed by the Corries.
He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair: For when they reach the scene of crime Macavity's not there!
— Macavity: The Mystery Cat
'In Scotland,' Tavish muttered, picking up my bags,'the women dothehod carrying whilewe blokesretiretothe nearest pubto deliberate upon the role of labour in society.'
— 1992 A Calculated Risk.
Auld Scotland wants nae skinking wareThat jaups in luggies; But, if ye wish her gratefu'prayer, Gie her a Haggis!
Robert Burns— 1786 'To a Haggis', stanza 8.
Scotland is not wholly surrounded by the seaunfortunately.
Grieve— 1934 Scottish Scene,'The Sea'.
Iceland, though it lies so far to the north that it is partly within the Arctic Circle, is, like Norway, Scotland, and Ireland, affected by the Gulf Stream, so that considerable portions of it are quite habitable.
harry johnston— Pioneers in Canada
In Scotland, land of the omnipotent No.
Alan Bold— 1969 'A Memory of Death'.
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 sweetand breaks the heart.
Grieve— 1934 Stony Limits and other poems,'The Little White Rose'.
Scotland small? Our multiform, infinite Scotland small?
Grieve— 1974 'Direadh'.
If there is writing on Hadrian's Wall, it reads that the English should leave Scotland to its own devices.
Simon Heffer— 1999 Nor Shall My Sword: The Reinventing of England.
For who would leave, unbrib'd, Hibernia's Land, Or change the rocks of Scotland for the Strand?
— 1738 London: a Poem, l.9-10.
Oats. A grain, which in England isgenerally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.
— 1755 A Dictionary of the English Language.
The vice of meanness, condemned in every other country, is in Scotland translated into a virtue called 'thrift'.
David Thomson— 1987 Nairn in Darkness and Light.
A symbol of all that's perfectly hideous about Scotland
Irvine Welsh— 1996 On the poet Hugh MacDiarmid. In Scotland on Sunday, 28 Jan.
We 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 blanchflower— Dartmouth College news release 30 July 2004
Joh. Mayor, in the first book of his "History of Scotland," contends much for the wholesomeness of oaten bread; it was objected to him, then living at Paris, that his countrymen fed on oats and base grain…. And yet Wecker out of Galen calls it horse-meat, and fitter juments than men to feed on.
robert burton— Section 2, member 2, subsection 1.
I am legitimately Scottish. I can officially say — yes. Yeah, I am from Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland.
karen gillan— When asked if she is "legitimately Scottish" in YouTube video
Oatmeal 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 Smith— Chapter VIII, p. 91 (Oatmeal in England makes for great horses, in Scotland Great Men...)
The Bruce , with which the Scottish contribution to English literature begins, long held its place as the national epic of Scotland.
john barbour— Kenneth Sisam Fourteenth Century Verse and Prose (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964) p. 108.
England 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 child— Supposititious Speech of James Otis. The Rebels, Chap. iv.
We who represent the Unionist Party in England and Scotland have supported, and we mean to support to the end, the loyal minority [in Ireland]. We support them not because we are intolerant, but because their claims are just.
andrew bonar law— Speech in the Albert Hall (26 January, 1912).
The "second sight" possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe they possess this gift because they don't wear trousers... That is also why in all countries women are more prone to utter prophecies.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg— L 26 (Notebook L (1793-1796))
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 macdiarmid— Hugh MacDiarmid, The Little White Rose.
Give me but one hour of Scotland, Let me see it ere I die.
— William E. Aytoun, Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers—Charles Edward at Versailles, line 111.
I'll drink a cup to Scotland yet, Wi' a' the honours three.
— Rev. Henry Scott Riddell, Toast to Scotland.
There is not such a word Spoke of in Scotland as this term of fear.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I (c. 1597), Act IV, scene 1, line 84.
The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night's sleep.
Margaret George— Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles (1992)
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 hood— Thomas Hood, The Flowers of Scotland; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 787.
From Perth, Scotland
— "Reader one moment stop and think,
That I am in eternity and you are on the brink."
