Scotsmen Quotes

• 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.

  Sean Connery

  Want, Englishmen

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• 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.

  Bill Forsyth

  Character, People, Phrases

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• 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.

  William Dunbar

  Emotional, Ironic, Despair

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

  James M. Barrie

  Sight, Scotland, World

  What Every Woman Knows (1918) act 2

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

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Sunshine, Scotland, Rays

  'Blandings Castle and Elsewhere' (1935) 'The Custody of the Pumpkin'

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

  Alastair Mackenzie

  Golf, Water, States

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

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Humility, Alive, Enough

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

  Walter Scott

  Fighting, World, Way

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• Only a Scotsman can really survive a Scottish education.

  Prince Philip

  Classic, Scottish

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

  Gail Carriger

  Nice, Kilts, Knees

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• 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.

  Linda Colley

  Winning, Past, Giving

  Linda Colley (2005). “Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837”, p.136, Yale University Press

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• 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.

  Ian Hislop

  War, Shells, World

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• 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.

  Harry Hay

  Brother, Father, Son

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• 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?"

  Frank Carson

  Funny, Humor, Bars

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• 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."

  Frank Carson

  Funny, Party, Humor

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

  Michael Gove

  Pms, Choices, Tough

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

  Frederick C. Beiser

  Territory, Reason, Conquest

  "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.

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• 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.

  John Muir

  Squares, Scotland, Catholic

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

  Milton Jones

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• 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!

  Alexander Murdoch Mackay

  Christian, Heart, Years

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• 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.

  Winsor McCay

  Father, Fighting, Names

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• 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.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fire, Religion, Coward

  "The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D". Book by James Boswell, 1791.

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

  Rod Stewart

  Father, People, Looks

  "Rod Stewart: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 18, 2012.

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Scotland, Doe, Sturdy

  'A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland' (1775) 'Ostig in Sky'

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