Top 100 Quotes About Scotland
#1. Windmills are going to be the death of Scotland and even England if they don't do something about them. They are ruining the countryside.
Donald Trump
#2. Liam was too Scottish-'
'Oh but so Scottish, Bel! Come on, the bagpipes? The interminable quotations from Braveheart? Anyone who's proud of coming from Scotland obviously has issues-
Paul Murray
#3. I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff.
Ewan McGregor
#4. There seemed to be no one in a position of power, from the Vatican to Wall Street, from Parliament to Scotland Yard to Fleet Street, who could think of anything better to do than abuse it ...
Edward St. Aubyn
#5. But only if youses shift yoursels and get in. He used the demotic plural of you, a common feature of speech in Scotland.
Alexander McCall Smith
#6. We are taught that God made our planet in six days.
Some know of an ancient story which tells that although He was well pleased with His work, God decided His world needed a special touch of magic.
So, on the seventh day, God created Scotland.
Cathy M. Donnelly
Cathy M. Donnelly
#7. We Scots have a fierce pride in the things we do that others can never appreciate. I am the British No. 1, but I would prefer to be the British No. 1 from Scotland every time.
Andy Murray
#8. Scotland have this habit of kicking themselves in the foot
Alan Brazil
#9. We already know that social security is more affordable in Scotland than it is in the rest of the U.K. - spending on social protection takes up a smaller share of our economic output and our tax revenues than is the case in the U.K. as a whole.
Nicola Sturgeon
#10. I certainly treasure the memory and indeed the picture, which still hangs in my house in Scotland, of Ronnie Barker and I with the Choir when we came to Wales to shoot our Welsh choir section of the "Two Ronnies" programme. You are very close to my heart.
Ronnie Corbett
#11. I was brought up in the north of Scotland, and where I lived was so lowly populated, it was used as a low-flying area by the Air Force, so lots of exciting aircraft used to fly over my village.
David Mackay
#12. 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
#13. Although I don't live there anymore, Scotland is a great place for the people coming over to visit and to tour around the Highlands, because it is a very magical place.
James Cosmo
#14. If you have a Tory government at Westminster that takes us out of Europe against our will, there may be people in Scotland who think, 'You know what, we might be better off independent.'
Nicola Sturgeon
#15. We Slovenians are even better misers than you Scottish. You know how Scotland began? One of us Slovenians was spending too much money, so we put him on a boat and he landed in Scotland.
Slavoj Zizek
#17. I was born in Scotland and have lived there all my life. I speak conversational Cantonese with my dad when I'm at home, and very basic Mandarin.
Katie Leung
#18. The archbishop of St. Andrews threatened that if Knox preached, he would be shot on sight. Knox preached anyway, from Perth to Fife and beyond. As a result, the summer of 1559 saw an extraordinary revival spread throughout Scotland.59
Douglas Bond
#19. We've also had comments in relation to Donald Trump's comments in respect of investment in Scotland- the UK government has never given Mr Trump awards or appointments.
James Brokenshire
#20. The great outdoors is a theme with me; a walking holiday in Scotland is perfect - Culloden and the forests of Aviemore are both favourites.
Erin O'Connor
#21. Ever since her trip with Alexia to Scotland, Mrs. Tunstell had rather a taste for foreign travel. Alexia blamed it on the kilts.
Gail Carriger
#22. As equally as one may use size, the cunning James Crosbie was once classified as the most dangerous man in Scotland, notorious for his daring bank robberies and escaping on a bicycle. He was the criminal mastermind behind many successful crimes carried out throughout the UK.
Stephen Richards
#23. The truth of the matter is that countries the world over have deficits. Let us remember this about Scotland's deficit: it was not created in an independent Scotland; it was created on Westminster's watch.
Nicola Sturgeon
#24. I attempted to fish in Scotland and I managed to hook a dog. It was a horrible moment but the dog turned out to be fine.
Emily Blunt
#25. You have sensible women here [in England] but then, they are very devils
censorious, uncharitable, sarcastic
the women in Scotland have twice
thrice their freedom, with all their virtue
and are very conversable and agreeable
their educations are more finished.
Fanny Burney
#26. The dirigible came to rest as lightly as a butterfly on an egg, if the butterfly were to stumble a bit and list heavily to one side and the egg to take on the peculiar characteristics of Scotland in winter: more soggy and more gray than one would think possible.
Gail Carriger
#27. That's it," she said, balling her hands in fists. "I'm not letting you out of it this time. I insist that you take me to Scotland. I demand you ruin me. As a point of honor.
Tessa Dare
#28. Scotland and England may sometimes be rivals, but by geography, we are also neighbours. By history, allies. By economics, partners. And by fate and fortune, comrades, friends and family.
Douglas Alexander
#29. The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things ... after the weather.
Billy Connolly
#30. The big issues, the things that scar Scotland - the least of them is whether we should have a border at Gretna Green or not.
Johann Lamont
#31. Lord, give me Scotland or I die!
John Knox
#32. When John Knox went upstairs to plead with God for Scotland, it was the greatest event in Scottish history.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#33. There is no greater symbol of the artistic spirit of Scotland than the Mackintosh building. But more than that it is a symbol of where art belongs, rising as it does out of the heart of a great city. A mighty castle on a hill, it is a part of me, and of all Glaswegians.
Peter Capaldi
#34. As an artist, it's a great opportunity to play a character like this [Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland]. And then, as a person, I had never been to the African continent. So, I knew, personally, it would reshape me.
Forest Whitaker
#35. I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it.
Edward Irving
#36. I think Scotland will become an independent country. I've always believed that. It means that if I'm right on that, there has to be another referendum at some stage. But the timing and circumstances of that will require careful judgment.
Nicola Sturgeon
#37. As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland.
Donald Trump
#38. And so he began haltingly to speak - in Gaelic, as it was the only tongue that didn't seem to require any effort. He understood that he was to speak of what filled his heart, and so began with Scotland - and Culloden. Of grief. Of loss. Of fear.
Diana Gabaldon
#39. Excuse me? You're a lady?"
"I bought a title on the Internet. I own one square inch of Scotland. And you're changing the subject.
Rachel Caine
#40. The media already attempts to assassinate my character in Scotland when I'm there, so my position is much more effective if I'm outside Scotland and am part of the voice of what the Scottish National Party is about.
Sean Connery
#41. For me pressure is bird flu. I'm serious. I'm feeling a lot of pressure with the problem in Scotland. It's not fun and I'm more scared of it than football. Football is nothing compared with life. For me bird flu is the drama of the last few days. I'll have to buy a mask.
Jose Mourinho
#42. Over the next few days we want cities, towns and villages across the UK to send a message to Scotland: stay with us.
Ed Miliband
#43. Scotland can't afford to take their minds off the gas
Andy Townsend
#44. A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth.
Samuel Johnson
#45. Scotland is one of my favourite places to perform: it's really something special. Scottish audiences are just so enthusiastic; their approach to dance music just feels similar to my own somehow.
Moby
#46. I was born in Peru, and we moved to Scotland when I was 15, but I've not lived here for a long time. But I would always say that I am Scottish, and Scotland is as close to a home as I have.
Henry Ian Cusick
#47. The Scottish Labour Party should work as equal partners with the U.K. party, just as Scotland is an equal partner in the United Kingdom. Scotland has chosen home rule - not London rule.
Johann Lamont
#48. There are many things we can do with Scotland and, indeed, with others which would be hugely beneficial to both Scotland and to Ireland, so I'm absolutely up for all of that.
Martin McGuinness
#50. There are lots of jobs and investment in Scotland dependent on our membership of the E.U. single market.
Nicola Sturgeon
#51. I love England. I live and work here. My children have grown up here. I see no conflict between this and praying that my countrymen in Scotland never have to live another day under Conservative rule from London.
John Niven
#52. The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!
Tahar Rahim
#53. And we feel that those characters couldn't be anywhere but where they are, that those characters couldn't say the things they say if they were uprooted and planted in, say, Minnesota or Scotland.
Thomas C. Foster
#54. There's a real emphasis on being witty in Scotland, even in crime novels.
Denise Mina
#55. Labour's support in Scotland depends on their ability to be electable. If they are divided and unelectable, what's the point?
Nicola Sturgeon
#56. I firmly believe that Scotland's place is in the U.K., and I do not believe in powers for power's sake.
Johann Lamont
#57. My vision for Scotland is one in which we fight together for the values we are care about: equality, fairness and social justice. Those values are the same whether you live in Dumfries or Carlisle.
Douglas Alexander
#58. Only 4 percent of all the companies owned in Scotland have their head offices in Scotland.
Sean Connery
#59. We are Scotland's independence generation. And our time is now
Alex Salmond
#60. If you are a Scot living outside of Scotland but still in the UK, you are not allowed to vote in the referendum. This leaves over a million of loyal, proud Scots disenfranchised. It gives me the rage.
Damian Barr
#61. If you put a frog in boiling water, it'll jump straight out. If you put it in cold water and gradually bring it to the boil, it'll sit right there until it dies. Scotland has been sitting in England's gradually boiling water for so long that many people are used to it.
John Niven
#62. Let us put the normal divisions of politics aside. Let us come together as one country; let us seize this historic moment to shift the balance of power from the corridors of Westminster to the streets and communities of Scotland.
Nicola Sturgeon
#63. I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.
Sydney Smith
#64. Due to the reliance on the old heavy industries in many parts of the country, it makes perfect sense that we need to spend more money per head of population on welfare support in Scotland.
Iain Duncan Smith
#65. An independent Scotland - like all countries - will face challenges, and we will have our ups and downs. But the decisions about how we use our wealth will be ours.
Nicola Sturgeon
#66. I want to look beyond the legends, to find the real story of Scotland. And it's every bit as thrilling.
Neil Oliver
#67. If I had stayed in Belfast, my life there wouldn't have as easy as it was in Scotland. I see the strain on the people who stayed. Always worrying about the safety of their children.
Joan Lingard
#68. Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God sakes, had a huge winery. Iceland was a farming community. As some of the glaciers retreated they found villages that were covered with ice.
Don Young
#69. Mollie Hunter was both a great friend and a very fine writer for children. She was fascinated by Scotland's history and its folklore - almost all her novels reflect her tremendous knowledge of both.
Joan Lingard
#71. Ah, Scotland. I am three-parts Scottish and terribly proud of it, although maybe we should divide it into eighths, because my two-eighths are Danish and English, the Lumley part. But the bulk of the rest of me is Scottish - and Scottish ministers especially.
Joanna Lumley
#72. 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
#73. 'Into the Blizzard' follows the author as he traces the footsteps of the Newfoundland Regiment during the First World War: where they trained in Scotland, where they fought in Gallipoli and where they died at the Battle of the Somme in France.
Michael Winter
#74. I always wanted to play Lestrade of Scotland Yard 'cause he's a buffoon that gets to wear a uniform. I thought that would be fun.
Tom Hanks
#75. 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
#76. This is about sending a very strong message that Scotland does want to stay in the European Union and we're an open country, a good place to live, work, study and to do business and it's really important as we take forward what will be challenging work ahead of us, that we send those messages.
Nicola Sturgeon
#77. I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.
Colin Hay
#78. There are few places in my life that I've found more ruggedly beautiful than the Highlands of Scotland. The place is magical - it's so far north, so remote, that sometimes it feels like you've left this world and gone to another.
Julia London
#79. 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 M. Child
#80. A peaceful refuge in which to rediscover each other, we thought,, not realizing that, while golf and fishing are Scotland's most popular outdoor sports, gossip is the most popular indoor sport.
Diana Gabaldon
#81. 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
#82. Scotland small? Our multiform, infinite Scotland SMALL?
Hugh MacDiarmid
#83. So it was that she knew she liked him, loved him as they said in the soppy English books, you were shamed and a fool to say that in Scotland.
Lewis Grassic Gibbon
#84. Scotland has a great deal to offer the world in terms of our approach to key economic and social issues.
Nicola Sturgeon
#85. When the British Open is in Scotland, there's something special about it. And when it's at St. Andrews, it's even greater.
Jack Nicklaus
#86. A couple of taxi drivers have asked me if we can survive financially as an independent nation. I say, how come we are more stupid than Denmark or Finland or Sweden? They've all got the same amount of people. Are we all going to down tools? Is everybody in Scotland going to stop working?
Eddi Reader
#87. Witches were burned and killed in Scotland and England for centuries before what happened in Salem.
Janet Montgomery
#88. There was one moment where they were riding their little ponies in Scotland, and Stella said to me: 'Dad! You're Paul McCartney, aren't you?' 'Yes darling, but I'm Daddy really'.
Paul McCartney
#89. Voting Labour in the past hasn't protected Scotland against Tory governments.
Nicola Sturgeon
#90. Social injustice is what puts Scotland at its greatest disadvantage, and restoring the 50p tax rate will start to fight that.
Johann Lamont
#91. he was more grateful for Truffey's generous forgiveness than he would have been for the richest living in Scotland. Such forgiveness is just giving us back ourselves - clean and happy. And for what gift can we be more grateful?
George MacDonald
#92. One good thing about rain in Scotland. Most of it ends up as scotch.
Peter Alliss
#93. I'm looking forward to locking swords with Douglas Henshall and working against the stunning backdrop of Shetland. I came to Scotland a lot in the 70s and 80s in various theatre productions and of course to film Hallam Foe but this is the furthest I've ever been.
Ciaran Hinds
#94. 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.
Alistair Cooke
#95. If Scotland and America go to war, I'm afraid I've already sworn in.
Craig Ferguson
#96. I love Scotland; I love the NHS. I was born into the NHS; I grew up in the NHS. My family grew up in the NHS.
Gordon Brown
#97. Time after time, on matters great and small, we are still standing on the sidelines, mutely accepting what is decided elsewhere instead of raising our voices and making our own choices. Scotland's much vaunted partnership of Jonah and the whale.
Winnie Ewing
#98. The war between England and Scotland was in its eighth year and there had been no raid for ten days: it had seemed possible to get married in peace.
Dorothy Dunnett
#99. There's not really the appetite in Wales at the moment to become an independent country. Scotland is in a different place.
Carwyn Jones
#100. 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
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