Scotland Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Scotland.
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“United Kingdom”
“There's none more Scots than the Scots abroad.”
“Give me but one hour of Scotland,
Let me see it ere I die.”
“We’re a mongrel nation and proud and the Aryans can fuck off.”
“NEVER forget that we are the bastard people of a mongrel nation.”
“That knuckle-end of England—that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and sulphur.”
“Hear, Land o' Cakes and brither Scots
Frae Maiden Kirk to Johnny Groat's.”
“It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.”
“A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better than truth.”
“The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high-road that leads him to England.”
“Seeing Scotland, Madam, is only seeing a worse England. It is seeing the flower gradually fade away to the naked stalk.”
“It's guid to be merry and wise,
It's guid to be honest and true,
It's guid to support Caledonia's cause,
And bide by the buff and the blue!”
“From its destitution of trees, Scotland was once a by-word; now it is a garden of beauty.”
“The rose of all the world is not for me.
I want for my part
Only the little white rose of Scotland
That smells sharp and sweet - and breaks the heart.”
“In all my travels I never met with any one Scotchman but what was a man of sense. I believe everybody of that country that has any, leaves it as fast as they can.”
“My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here;
My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.”
“O Scotia! my dear, my native soil!
For whom my warmest wish to heaven is sent;
Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil
Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content.”
“I do not discuss the Scotch cases. They are not binding on us as authorities, though of the greatest service, as containing the opinions and arguments of able and accomplished lawyers.”
“In short, he and the Scotch have no way of redeeming the credit of their understandings, but by avowing that they have been consummate villains. Stavano bene; per star meglio, stanno qui.”
“The side of my family that comes from Scotland, hell, they didn’t even worry about fighting people outside of Scotland. Highlanders and lowlanders just fought the hell out of each other.”