Scots Quotes
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Scots Quotes & Sayings
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A beautiful woman is born Queen of men and women both, as Mary Stuart was born Queen of Scots, whether men or women.
— Herman Melville
God bless the Scots and their puritan upbringing,
— Jeffrey Archer
Scotland small? Our multiform, infinite Scotland SMALL?
— Hugh MacDiarmid
I ain't seen a herd the size of it, not even when the Scots drive the beeves down from Scotland to London.
— Bernard Cornwell
Bergulme. Elsbeere. Hagebuche. Efeu. Scots elm. Service tree. Hornbeam.
— Jill Alexander Essbaum
Although I'm a Scot, I'd be proud to be called a Scouser.
— Bill Shankly
Let us think of ourselves not as 'yes' and 'no' Scots but simply as Scots, and let us be a nation, united again.
— Gordon Brown
There is something so quiet and so industrious, something so Viking about the Scots.
— Joanna Lumley
While traveling in this highly idiosyncratic country, it became clear to me that the Scots did not like the English.
— Joe Queenan
No one provokes me with impunity.
— Mary, Queen Of Scots
The Scots will do anything to beat the English or just to see them lose, but I've never bought into that really.
— Gerard Butler
To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.
— Mary, Queen Of Scots
No more tears now; I will think about revenge.
— Mary, Queen Of Scots
The Scots are subsidy junkies whingeing like a trampled bagpipe as they wait for their next fix of English taxpayers' money.
— Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton Of Brenchley
There is some really good crack when I come back here. This is where I learned to swear.
— Ewan McGregor
Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.
— Winston S. Churchill
Never have I had such assistants to disrobe me, and never have I put off my clothes before such a company
— Mary, Queen Of Scots
Surely our language is the image of our soul
— William Soutar
Kidnapping is a national past time to these Scots and they do it for the sheer pleasure of making each other miserable.
— Claire Robyns
I fear the prayers of John Knox more than all the assembled armies of Europe
— Mary, Queen Of Scots
Och, and there's your Scots blood, lass," he said with a faint smile. "A fine bit o' temper too.
— Karen Marie Moning
In my end lies my beginning" Who said that? Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1542-1587).
— Danny Saunders
But he'll never be fully recognised, because Scots literature these days is all about complaining and moaning and being injured in one's soul.
— Alexander McCall Smith
God help England if she had no Scots to think for her.
— George Bernard Shaw
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You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas.
— James M. Barrie
Sidheag could be quite crass, the result of having been raised by men, or Scots, or soldiers, or werewolves, or all four.
— Gail Carriger
Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
— Francois Rabelais
The more a climate can be created in which neither the English nor the Scots are given cause to resent each other, the better.
— Simon Heffer
Here's tae us. Wha's like us?" "Damned few," she replied in broad Scots, "and they're all deid.
— Diana Gabaldon
Look to your consciences and remember that the theatre of the world is wider than the realm of England.
— Mary, Queen Of Scots
As Scots, we certainly want change today, but the change the Nationalists offer is not the change we want or need.
— Douglas Alexander
In perseverance, in self command, in forethought, in all virtues which conduce to success in life, the Scots have never been surpassed.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
If I could be anything in the world I would want to be a teardrop because I would be born in your eyes, live on your cheeks, and die on your lips.
— Mary, Queen Of Scots
Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
— Callum Keith Rennie
Mary Queen of Scots is the most 'normal' girl who became a queen that I have ever written about.
— Kathryn Lasky
He gave it the benefit of the doubt; he was Scotch.("The Wendigo") — Algernon Blackwood
Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins.
— James Barrett Reston
The Scots are a very tough people. They have drive-by headbuttings. In Glasgow a sweatband is considered a silencer.
— Emo Philips
A lot of Scots have settled in Canada over the years and it's a very easy place for Scots - they understand us, we understand them.
— Robert Carlyle
Like millions of Scots, I've agonised over whether to go for independence or remain with the Union.
— Rory Bremner
famously, Scots are very interested in their past, real or invented, but who else is?
— Jenny Wormald
Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It's all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing.
— Billy Boyd
I fear John Knox's prayers more than an army of ten thousand men.
— Mary, Queen Of Scots
Of the insolence of the Scots, my father used to say, there is no end.
— Bernard Cornwell
The Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head, heart and haggis.
— William Osler
My roots are Scottish. My dad's parents are from Scotland, and my mum's dad is Scots.
— Katharine Isabelle
[On being told Mary, Queen of Scots, was taller than she:] Then she is too high, for I myself am neither too high nor too low.
— Elizabeth I
I don't know a lot about the Scots, but I'm aware they have beaten some of the English counties in the NCL and have gone close in other matches,
— Justin Langer
The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.
— Sean Connery
In my end is my beginning
— Mary, Queen Of Scots
Nationality is a very curious thing. The blood is Scots and the temperament is Scots, but I am, in fact, 100% American.
— Alexander Mackendrick
