Scottish Quotes - Page 2

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

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

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

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

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

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 started dancing when I was three, Scottish dancing.

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

My background is Scottish.

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

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

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

What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?

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.

Those English and Scottish know how to do accents.

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

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

I may be a werewolf and Scottish, but despite what you may have read about both, we are not cads!

I'm very proud of my Scottish blood.

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

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

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

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.

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