Scotland Quotes - 2
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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.
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More Scotland Quotes
Auld Reikie! wale o' ilka town That Scotland kens beneath the moon; Whare couthy chiels at e'ening meet Their bizzing craigs and mous to weet.
Edna Ferber— 1773 'Auld Reikie, A Poem'.
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).
He canna Scotland see wha yet Canna see the Infinite, And Scotland in true scale to it.
Grieve— 1926 A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, l.2527-9.
I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.
Rev Sydney Smith— 1815 Letter to Lord Holland, [August]. In The Letters of Sydney Smith edited by Nowell C Smith (1953), vol.1.
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.
As touching nature I am a worm of this earth, and yet a subject of this commonwealth; but as touching the office wherein it has pleased God to place me [head of the Reformed church in Scotland], I am a watchman...For that reason I am bound in conscience to blow the trumpet publicly.
john knox— As quoted in World Studies for Christian Schools (2000) by Terri Koontz, Mark Sidwell & S. M. Bunker, ISBN 1-59166-431-4
If there's a sword-like sangThat can cut Scotland clearO a' the warld besideRax me the hilt o't here.For there's nae jewal tillFrae the rest o earth it's free,Wi the starry separatenessI'd fain to Scotland gie.
hugh macdiarmid— To Circumjack Cencrastus
Beloved Scotland of the winter and the hills! ’Tis little that thou’lt get from them, but they will make thee hard and brave!
neil munro— The New Road, ch. 23
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...)
Shillong is widely known as Scotland of the East. It is a beautiful town.
— M.M. Jacob, in David R. Syiemlieh From Shillong: Speeches Of M.M. Jacob, Daya Books, 1 January 2005, p.20
A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better than truth.
samuel johnson— Samuel Johnson, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775).
Seeing Scotland, Madam, is only seeing a worse England. It is seeing the flower gradually fade away to the naked stalk.
— Samuel Johnson in conversation with Mrs. Thrale, April 8, 1778. Cited from James Boswell Life of Johnson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989) p. 914.
Beloved Scotland of the winter and the hills! ’Tis little that thou’lt get from them, but they will make thee hard and brave!
— The New Road, ch. 23 (Sourced)
Lyndsay, with all his ancient coarseness…maintained for two centuries, even among the precise, his position as the popular poet of Scotland.
— George Gordon The Discipline of Letters (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1946) p. 91.
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.
I would rather have a Scot come from Scotland togovern the people of this kingdom well and justly, than that you should govern them ill in the sight of all the world.
Konrad Lorenz— 1244 To his son, Louis, at Fontainebleau.
We had better remain in union with England, even at the risk of becoming a subordinate species of Northumberland, as far as national consequence is concerned, than remedy ourselves by even hinting the possibility of a rupture. But there is no harm in wishing Scotland tohavejust somuchill-nature, according toher own proverb, as may keep her good-nature from being abused.
— 1826 Letters of Malachi Malagrowther on the Proposed Change of Currency, letter1.
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.
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 (1912)
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— Lydia Maria Child, Supposititious Speech of James Otis, The Rebels, Chapter IV.
From the time of the North Briton of the unprincipled Wilkes , a notion has been entertained that the moral spine in Scotland is more flexible than in England. The truth however is, that an elementary difference exists in the public feelings of the two nations quite as great as in the idioms of their respective dialects. The English are a justice-loving people, according to charter and statute; the Scotch are a wrong-resenting race, according to right and feeling: and the character of liberty among them takes its aspect from that peculiarity.
— John Galt Ringan Gilhaize (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1823) vol. 3, p. 313.
