272 Quotes About Scotland

  • Author Rupert Adams
  • Quote

    Pre-tournament Scotland were our 50/1 outsiders, so to say this is a shock is an understatement.

  • Tags
  • Share



  • Author Alistair Cooke
  • Quote

    The South is one of those kingdoms of the mind, like India or Scotland, that are neat and understandable only to people who have never been there.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Andrew Carnegie
  • Quote

    Touch his head, and he will bargain and argue with you to the last; Touch his heart, and he falls upon your breast.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Charles Churchill
  • Quote

    The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride; True is the charge, nor by themselves denied. Are they not then in strictest reason clear, Who wisely come to mend their fortunes here?

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • Quote

    For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Robert Carlyle
  • Quote

    People in Scotland appreciate homegrown talent, but it's getting harder and harder to get films made in Britain.

  • Tags
  • Share