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The Scots are a very tough people. They have drive-by headbuttings. In Glasgow a sweatband is considered a silencer.

Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.

Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.

Scotland small? Our multiform, infinite Scotland SMALL?

God help England if she had no Scots to think for her.

The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad.

It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history.

You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas.

If global warming meant temperatures rose by one or two degrees, France would become a desert, which would be no bad thing. The Scots would grow wine and make buffalo mozzarella.

Scots they're either nice or they're horrid and these two are horrid. The Scots wont like that Eamon, thats bordering on racism. Its not racism its ethnic criticism Bill.

Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome to your gory bed, Or to victory! Now 's the day and now 's the hour; See the front o' battle lour.

Although I'm a Scot, I'd be proud to be called a Scouser.

The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride; True is the charge, nor by themselves denied. Are they not then in strictest reason clear, Who wisely come to mend their fortunes here?

We Slovenians are even better misers than you Scottish. You know how Scotland began? One of us Slovenians was spending too much money, so we put him on a boat and he landed in Scotland.

The Scots are subsidy junkies whingeing like a trampled bagpipe as they wait for their next fix of English taxpayers' money.

This is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of... well, my grandfather was a minister and sort of Protestant, and this was rather depressing to me.

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 Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head, heart and haggis.

No one leaves a long-term relationship scot-free or without conflict.

The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.

If I've got any small role in this matter, it's to say to Scots Americans: under no circumstances make Donald Trump President of the United States of America.

[On being told Mary, Queen of Scots, was taller than she:] Then she is too high, for I myself am neither too high nor too low.

We have been told to ask about everything: Will it leave us free?

It is a great comfort to a rambling people to know that somewhere there is a permanent home--perhaps it is the most final of the comforts they ever really know.

Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins.

We Scots have a fierce pride in the things we do that others can never appreciate. I am the British No. 1, but I would prefer to be the British No. 1 from Scotland every time.

Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.

I've never played Scots or got the chance to do my Scottish accent. I'm always trying it out in auditions, but they always say no. I'd love to act in a Scottish accent for once.

I come from a very critical culture. You know the Scots. They're always saying: 'Oh, no. It will never work. You'll never amount to anything. You've got to know your place in the world.

In perseverance, in self command, in forethought, in all virtues which conduce to success in life, the Scots have never been surpassed.

Scots have long memories, and they're not the most forgiving of people.

The more a climate can be created in which neither the English nor the Scots are given cause to resent each other, the better.

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

A lot of Scots have settled in Canada over the years and it's a very easy place for Scots - they understand us, we understand them.

Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special.

The Scots are very hospitable; almost as hospitable as the Americans.

My roots are Scottish. My dad's parents are from Scotland, and my mum's dad is Scots.

I don't know a lot about the Scots, but I'm aware they have beaten some of the English counties in the NCL and have gone close in other matches.

There is some really good crack when I come back here. This is where I learned to swear.

For generations comedians have made jokes about Scots-Irish in the South inter-breeding. "I am my own grandpa" and all that stuff; you know, because they all were marrying their first cousins.

I don't think that the Scots are happy to drift into Britain becoming the poorest of the poor, sub-American 51st state.

I can see why the Russians love Robert Burns, I think that Russians and Koreans have a very similar outlook to Scots.

Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.

A beautiful woman is born Queen of men and women both, as Mary Stuart was born Queen of Scots, whether men or women.

The Scots will do anything to beat the English or just to see them lose, but I've never bought into that really.

Scots are Jocks,WelshmenTaffies, and Irishmen Paddies or Micks but?it is noticeable there is no similar designation for the English.

Logan lowers his head close to mine. 'Just know this, Ivy Calhhoun, ' he begins. 'If I werena a ghost I would open all door for you, properly.

In my end lies my beginning" Who said that? Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1542-1587).