Great Scottish Quotes

#1. The scotch egg is such a Scottish food. It's as though a great Scottish chef said: I need a tasty snack. Let's take an egg ... and wrap it in meat!! Makes it a bit harder.

Bill Bailey

#2. If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.

Barry Mann

#3. Whenever I've been in Scotland I've had such amazing support, and the love from Scottish fans has always been great.

Olly Murs

#4. At times we are the worst racist enemies of our black selves.

Gloria D. Gonsalves

#5. I think that Scottish people, like Canadians, are often misunderstood and what I like about my Scottish friends and relatives is how quickly it can go from love to anger. It's a great dynamic.

Mike Myers

#6. You can cover a great deal of country in books.

Andrew Lang

#7. Which is all to say maybe it's just being alive at a baseball game on a fall day in the heart of her city.

Blake Crouch

#8. Fifteen years was a long time to be stranded anywhere, particularly somewhere as mind-boggingly dull as Earth.

Douglas Adams

#9. Today, we can see with our own eyes what global warming is doing. In that context it becomes truly irresponsible, if not immoral, for us not to do something.

Joe Lieberman

#10. Scotland can exist fully if we dream hard enough, Julie. I just can't relate to that Scottish deep-fried-chip-on-the-shoulder. Trainspotting was wrong: it feels fucking great being Scottish. We're becoming something, Julie. I can feel it. We're getting dressed up.

Alan Bissett

#11. My great grandparents are Scottish, and I have this very tenuous connection which I try and bump up whenever I can, because I'd much rather be Scottish than English.

Rupert Friend

#12. Being a great believer in Scottish tradition, I followed the example of my fellow countrymen and moved to England.

Rory Bremner

#13. To hear, in the short space of one week, a Scottish terrier booed by an audience and President Roosevelt criticized by Charles Lindbergh was a great strain on our nerves. The props of life seem to be crumbling fast.

E.B. White

#14. It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.

Callum Keith Rennie

#15. May you be set free from all your fears.
May you be saved from all your troubles.
May you be rescued from every calamity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. Scotland is a great nation, but its horses are very uncomfortable.

Mel Gibson

#17. [Scottish songs] are, I own, frequently wild, & unreduceable to the more modern rules; but on that very eccentricity, perhaps, depends a great part of their effect.

Robert Burns