Scotsmen Quotes

Being a Scotsman, I am naturally opposed to water in its undiluted state.

It was a tough choice [of PM]. I voted for a Scotsman.

A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth.

This day last year Livingstone died-a Scotsman and a Christian, loving God and his neighbour in the heart of Africa. Go thou and do likewise!

Scotsmen, she had occasion to observe, often did have nice knees. Perhaps that was why they insisted upon kilts.

There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.

It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.

England Their England by AG Macdonell which was written in the thirties and is about a young Scotsman who's got shell shocked during the First World War… I love it.

I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one.

Incredible to think isn't it, that every single Scotsman, started off as a scotch egg. Old and gingery.

With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

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.

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.

There was no Prussian bastion to stop the Scotsman's swift conquest of the territory once claimed by reason.

Only a Scotsman can really survive a Scottish education.

Three Scotsmen of the clan McKay were looking for a fourth member to fight four members of the Irish clan Magee ... 'I'm not one of you,' my father pointed out. 'You see, I'm one of the clan M-c-C-A-Y.' And that is how I got both my name and my sense of humor.

Wherever a Scotsman goes, here goes Burns. His grand whole, catholic soul squares with the good of all; therefore we find him in everything, everywhere.

My father, being a Scotsman, taught me to look after finances. I'm shrewd. Some people may call me tight.

I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.

I was an older brother. So I had to do a lot of things first. My father was a self-made man, and he would beat me senseless. But he was a Scotsman, and stubborn. I'm his son, and I'm stubborn, too. I go on being stubborn.

An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman walk into a bar. The barman looks at them and says: "Is this some kind of a joke?"

An Englishman, Irishman and Scotsman were invited to a Christmas party. The Englishman brought a bag of tinsel, the Scotsman brought a bag of holly and they asked the Irishman: "What have you brought?" He said: "I brought a pair of knickers." They asked: "What has that got to do with Christmas?" He said "They're Carol's."

Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotsman to draw the trigger at his death.

In the past, the British had signally failed to build an effective structure of royal authority and administration in their American colonies. As a result, no possibility existed of soothing and winning over influential and talented Americans, in the way that influential and talented Scotsmen were increasingly being won over, by giving them increased access to state employment.