Scottish Quotes

Scottish Quote of the day

My heart 's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart 's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.

Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together.

It can fairly be said of John Smith that he had all the virtues of a Scottish presbyterian, but none of the vices.

I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh.

My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.

Scottish-Americans tell you that if you want to identify tartans, it's easy - you simply look under the kilt, and if it's a quarter-pounder, you know it's a McDonald's.

Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country.

[Macbeth] is historically set in a place depicted by Shakespeare as brutal and violent, incredibly superstitious, and that's something that I do believe is Scottish.

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other.

If you want something Scottish, go get yourself a kilt.

I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.

I like Scottish people because they feel very true. They're always level and straight. They get a reputation for being hardened because of it, but I find them to be scrupulously honest people.

Scottish bagpipe has two tenors and one bass - three drone pipes - and then the one chanter. If you put bagpipes together, it creates such a fine sound.

I feel more Scottish than Norman.

Give me but one hour of Scotland, Let me see it ere I die.

We don't know anything about Scottish history. All we know is that an American guy painted his face blue and somehow they won.

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.

The curse of Scottish literature is the lack of a whole language, which finally means the lack of a whole mind.

In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture.

I've got a bit of Scottish Blood... On my kitchen knife!!

The turn from this end [despair] to a new beginning came from three things. A blooming cherry tree, the unexpected kindness of Scottish workers and their families, and the Bible.

If the Scottish want to break away, I shall stand on Hadrian's Wall with a teary handkerchief, and say: 'Good riddance to the lot of you, and take your stupid bagpipes with you.'

You can only chase a butterfly for so long.

It would ha' been a good deal easier, if ye'd only been a witch.

The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the Buttercup Dairy)

I often have scripts sent to me with allegedly Scottish characters where I end up telling them, 'You're going to have to rethink this whole thing!

I wanted to be with the men I admired rather than the Scottish Arts Council crowd, so I spent a lot of time in graveyards. You get less trouble from the dead.

My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some of whom had come over from Scotland.

There are things that Scotsmen get and other people don't get in the dialogue. Scottish characters can be pinpointed by a phrase, targeted very quickly.

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.

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.

I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is.

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

Scottish football is full of hammer throwers.

My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage.' My father David, from a poor Scottish family, was a doctor.

Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond, and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.

When I watched Braveheart I was in tears and I was rooting for the Scottish people

Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts.

My humour and my work ethic definitely come from my Scottish side, and I have to say the sense of humour doesn't really translate when I'm in America.

My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.

I'm fiercely proud to be Scottish.

Only a Scotsman can really survive a Scottish education.

We'll have more football later. Meanwhile, here are the highlights from the Scottish Cup final.

I have lots of Scottish blood and know that my family name is Scottish. At my home in the States I have a tartan crest but, unfortunately, I do a terrible Scottish accent.

I lost the accent years ago, but I'm still very proud to be Scottish, and I love wearing a kilt.

I tend to get starstruck with sports people. I was on a chat show with retired Scottish footballer Denis Law and I just lost it and couldn't talk to him.

On my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin.