Scottish Quotes

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.

[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.

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

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

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

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

I feel more Scottish than Norman.

I think the French agonise more about being French, I don't think English think about being English that much. I think the Scottish think about being Scottish and the Welsh think about being Welsh, but the English don't really care. But the French think about it all the time, it's an absolute preoccupation.

Most of the music I've become interested in is hybrid in its originsClassical music, of course, is unbelievably hybrid. Jazz is an obvious amalgam. Bluegrass comes from eighteenth-century Scottish and Irish folk music that made contact with the blues. By exploring music, you're exploring everything.

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

I got into one of the Scottish classical styles called piobaireachd, which is a very old music that started around the 1700s or something. I really got into this music. After that, I started to compose bagpipe music in my notations. Then I started building bagpipes by myself, and then I started to perform with the instrument myself in the 1980s.

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.

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

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

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'm fiercely proud to be Scottish.

Scottish football is full of hammer throwers.

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.

The settled will of the Scottish people.

The Scottish Parliament, adjourned on the 25th of March 1707 is hereby reconvened.

Only a Scotsman can really survive a Scottish education.

Everyone still thinks I'm Scottish - that's totally wicked.

I'm half Jewish, half Scottish. It's hard for me to buy anything.

[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.

I feel Scottish when with English people, and when I'm with Scottish people, I realise I'm English.

I started dancing when I was three, Scottish dancing.

I'm Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American.

I had a whole Scottish existence until we moved to London when I was four.

There's just certain accents that you can and can't do. And the Scottish accent was one that came quite naturally to me, which is weird because I have no one in my life who's Scottish.

I am Michael, and I am part English, Irish, German, and Scottish, sort of a virtual United Nations.

Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It’s all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing.

Most traditional Scottish food is designed to use things that are just about to go...off.

I'm very proud of my Scottish blood.

I am Scottish. I am also British.

I am legitimately Scottish. I can officially say — yes. Yeah, I am from Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland.

Those English and Scottish know how to do accents.

Aye, wumman, if it's truly romantic, then it must be Scottish.

I like Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist.

I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love a good show.

I look forward to a time when Irish patriotism will as easily combine with British patriotism as Scottish patriotism combines now.

The Scottish are not shy when it comes to expressing themselves.

As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It's something they reserve just for me.

Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.

I get recognised in the street, but that's more from all the Scottish people who are down in Blackpool on their holidays.

Scottish operative lodges began in the seventeenth century to admit non-operative members as accepted or gentleman masons and that by the early eighteenth century in some lodges the accepted or gentleman masons had gained the ascendancy: those lodges became, in turn speculative lodges, whilst others continued their purely operative nature. The speculative lodges eventually combined to form the Grand Lodge of Scotland in 1736.

Mind you, if a blockbuster movie was offered, I wouldn't say no. I can do accents - I don't always have to be Scottish.

Folk songs in general, I like. The old spooky Scottish folk songs.