Scotland Quotes

OATS, 'n'. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people. (Samuel Johnson)

KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.

Ambrose Bierce

Of Scotland That knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and sulphur.

Sydney Smith

I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.

Sydney Smith

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

I was born in London, and went to school in Scotland - I used to be dead tired when I got home at night.

Norman Wisdom

A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea.

Catherine Helen Spence

For me as leader my time is nearly over, but for Scotland the campaign continues and the dream shall never die.

Alex Salmond

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.

Bonar Law

I am legitimately Scottish. I can officially say - yes. Yeah, I am from Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland.

Karen Gillan

I was born in the island of Ireland. I have Irish traits in me - we don't all have the traits of what came from Scotland, there is the celtic factor... and I am an Irishman because you cannot be an Ulsterman without being an Irishman. (Ian Paisley)

The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things... after the weather.

Billy Connolly

There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.

Billy Connolly

Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.

Billy Connolly

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

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

Even though there's a massive amount of people of colour now living in Scotland...this country is 30 or 40 years behind any other English city in terms of racial attitudes and integration. There's no proper acknowledgement of the slave trade and how many Scottish cities were founded on money from that. Our children are just not taught that history.

Jackie Kay

I just love family meetings. Very cozy, with the Christmas garlands round the fireplace and a nice pot of tea and a detective from Scotland Yard ready to arrest you.

Rick Riordan

The thing I miss the most about Scotland is the football.

Robert Carlyle

But I fear, my lot being cast in Scotland, that beauty would not be content.

Anne Boyd

James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster. (Charlotte Mary Yonge)

In Scotland, beautiful as it is, it was always raining. Even when it wasn't raining, it was about to rain, or had just rained. It's a very angry sky.

Colin Hay

We are also fortunate in being in quite a sheltered environment, in terms of people moving on to do other things, because there are relatively few companies in Scotland that are looking for the skill set that we've developed.

David Milne

There's a real emphasis on being witty in Scotland, even in crime novels.

Denise Mina

My favorite instrument is the snare drum. In Scotland, the snare drum is very prominent in Highland bands. The Scottish style of playing is in my blood. It's a very powerful instrument, but it can also be soothing, like velvet. It's a real challenge for composers.

Evelyn Glennie

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