Scotland Quotes
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![J.M. Barrie](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1519029719i/5255014._UX200_CR0,47,200,200_.jpg)
“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”
― Peter Pan
― Peter Pan
![Diana Gabaldon](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1670465511i/3617._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.”
― Dragonfly in Amber
― Dragonfly in Amber
![Paul Auster](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1554662932i/296961._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Each time he took a walk, he felt as though he were leaving himself behind, and by giving himself up to the movement of the streets, by reducing himself to a seeing eye, he was able to escape the obligation to think, and this, more than anything else, brought him a measure of peace, a salutary emptiness within...By wandering aimlessly, all places became equal and it no longer mattered where he was. On his best walks he was able to feel that he was nowhere. And this, finally was all he ever asked of things: to be nowhere.”
― City of Glass
― City of Glass
![Winston S. Churchill](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1306133803i/14033._UX200_CR0,21,200,200_.jpg)
“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”
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![Susanna Clarke](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1453496946i/8842._UX200_CR0,6,200,200_.jpg)
“When he awoke it was dawn. Or something like dawn. The light was watery, dim and incomparably sad. Vast, grey, gloomy hills rose up all around them and in between the hills there was a wide expanse of black bog.
Stephen had never seen a landscape so calculated to reduce the onlooker to utter despair in an instant. "This is one of your kingdoms, I suppose, sir?" he said. "My kingdoms?" exclaimed the gentleman in surprize. "Oh, no! This is Scotland!”
― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Stephen had never seen a landscape so calculated to reduce the onlooker to utter despair in an instant. "This is one of your kingdoms, I suppose, sir?" he said. "My kingdoms?" exclaimed the gentleman in surprize. "Oh, no! This is Scotland!”
― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
![Frankie Boyle](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1329134310i/2937021._UY200_CR66,0,200,200_.jpg)
“For 3 million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could hand her over to Satan in person. (on Margaret Thatcher)”
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![Diana Gabaldon](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1670465511i/3617._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“I thought the force of my wanting must wake ye, surely. And then ye did come. . ." He stopped, looking at me with eyes gone soft and dark. "Christ, Claire, ye were so beautiful, there on the stair, wi' your hair down and the shadow of your body with the light behind ye…." He shook his head slowly. "I did think I should die, if I didna have ye," he said softly. "Just then.”
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![Signe Pike](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1595622612i/4071525._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“In prehistoric times, early man was bowled over by natural events: rain, thunder, lightning, the violent shaking and moving of the ground, mountains spewing deathly hot lava, the glow of the moon, the burning heat of the sun, the twinkling of the stars. Our human brain searched for an answer, and the conclusion was that it all must be caused by something greater than ourselves - this, of course, sprouted the earliest seeds of religion. This theory is certainly reflected in faery lore. In the beautiful sloping hills of Connemara in Ireland, for example, faeries were believed to have been just as beautiful, peaceful, and pleasant as the world around them. But in the Scottish Highlands, with their dark, brooding mountains and eerie highland lakes, villagers warned of deadly water-kelpies and spirit characters that packed a bit more punch.”
― Faery Tale: One Woman's Search for Enchantment in a Modern World
― Faery Tale: One Woman's Search for Enchantment in a Modern World
![Winston S. Churchill](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1306133803i/14033._UX200_CR0,21,200,200_.jpg)
“Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.”
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![Slavoj Žižek](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1449231598i/2340358._UX200_CR0,27,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
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![Peter Hitchens](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1535025970i/39704._UY200_CR6,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding 'like Princess Di') but the more thoughtful ones resent and rather dislike us as a nation and people, as friends of mine have found out by being on the edge of conversations where Americans assumed no Englishmen were listening.
And it is the English, specifically, who are the targets of this. Few Americans have heard of Wales. All of them have heard of Ireland and many of them think they are Irish. Scotland gets a sort of free pass, especially since Braveheart re-established the Scots' anti-English credentials among the ignorant millions who get their history off the TV.”
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And it is the English, specifically, who are the targets of this. Few Americans have heard of Wales. All of them have heard of Ireland and many of them think they are Irish. Scotland gets a sort of free pass, especially since Braveheart re-established the Scots' anti-English credentials among the ignorant millions who get their history off the TV.”
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![Karen Hawkins](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1210188802i/4633._UX200_CR0,28,200,200_.jpg)
“Love doesna always mean burning flashes o' passion. Sometimes, it's jus' the warmth o' yer hearts as they beat yer day together." ~Old Woman Nora to her three wee granddaughters on a cold winter's night.”
― Sleepless in Scotland
― Sleepless in Scotland
![Robert Burns](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1209473267i/75831._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here;
My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer;
A-chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe,
My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go.”
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My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer;
A-chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe,
My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go.”
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![Edwin Morgan](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1683578837i/73785._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“There were never strawberries
like the ones we had
that sultry afternoon
sitting on the step
of the open french window
facing each other
your knees held in mine
the blue plates in our laps
the strawberries glistening
in the hot sunlight
we dipped them in sugar
looking at each other
not hurrying the feast
for one to come
the empty plates laid on the stone together
with the two forks crossed
and I bent towards you
sweet in that air
in my arms
abandoned like a child
from your eager mouth
the taste of strawberries
in my memory
lean back again
let me love you
let the sun beat
on our forgetfulness
one hour of all
the heat intense
and summer lightning
on the Kilpatrick hills
let the storm wash the plates.”
― The Second Life: Selected Poems
like the ones we had
that sultry afternoon
sitting on the step
of the open french window
facing each other
your knees held in mine
the blue plates in our laps
the strawberries glistening
in the hot sunlight
we dipped them in sugar
looking at each other
not hurrying the feast
for one to come
the empty plates laid on the stone together
with the two forks crossed
and I bent towards you
sweet in that air
in my arms
abandoned like a child
from your eager mouth
the taste of strawberries
in my memory
lean back again
let me love you
let the sun beat
on our forgetfulness
one hour of all
the heat intense
and summer lightning
on the Kilpatrick hills
let the storm wash the plates.”
― The Second Life: Selected Poems
![Irvine Welsh](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1461084249i/5687._UY200_CR18,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Iggy Pop looks right at me as he sings the line: 'America takes drugs in psychic defence'; only he changes 'America' to 'Scatlin', and defines us mair accurately in a single sentence than all the others have ever done.”
― Trainspotting
― Trainspotting
“But I do like Scotland. I like the miserable weather. I like the miserable people, the fatalism, the negativity, the violence that's always just below the surface. And I like the way you deal with religion. One century you're up to your lugs in it, the next you're trading the whole apparatus in for Sunday superstores. Praise the Lord and thrash the bairns. Ask and ye shall have the door shut in your face. Blessed are they that shop on the Sabbath, for they shall get the best bargains. Oh yes, this is a very fine country.”
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![Cyndi Tefft](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1330645685i/4774430._UX200_CR0,40,200,200_.jpg)
“I also told you when I made you my bride that I would not count the days if you would promise me the same. I don't intend to start now, love. You're my wife, yesterday, today, and forever. - Aiden MacRae”
― Hell Transporter
― Hell Transporter
![Cyndi Tefft](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1330645685i/4774430._UX200_CR0,40,200,200_.jpg)
“I went to this beautiful place where the ground moved underneath me and the air was a part of me, and where time stopped. It was amazing and wonderful. But God sent me back, back to my body, back to you. - Lindsey Water”
― Between
― Between
![Irvine Welsh](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1461084249i/5687._UY200_CR18,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Ah don't hate the English. They're just wankers. We are colonised by wankers. We can't even pick a decent, vibrant, healthy culture to be colonised by. No. We're ruled by effete arseholes. What does that make us?”
― Trainspotting
― Trainspotting
![Marsha Canham](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1248881427i/371595._CR0,17,200,200_.jpg)
“Note savages, eh? They live in mountain caves and dress like wild men. They walk about in woolen petticoats, which they are not in the least modest about casting aside when they need their sword arms free. Dash me, can you even begin to imagine the sight of a horde of naked, hairy-legged creatures charging at you across a battlefield like bloody fiends out of hell—screaming and flailing those great bloody swords and axes of theirs like scythes? Not savages?”
― The Pride of Lions
― The Pride of Lions
![Christopher Brookmyre](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1354322152i/167572.jpg)
“People didn't really like McDonald's, same as her mum didn't really like Catholicism, but when you were new in town, at least it was a known quantity. So that'll be a Quarter-Pounder and a Communion Wafer meal-deal to go.”
― Pandaemonium
― Pandaemonium
![Alexander McCall Smith](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1272995820i/4738._UX200_CR0,22,200,200_.jpg)
“But he'll never be fully recognised, because Scots literature these days is all about complaining and moaning and being injured in one's soul.”
― The Sunday Philosophy Club
― The Sunday Philosophy Club
![Gwenn Wright](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1395687401i/4191733._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I had turned to leave and he had called after me. “Miss Maria, I kin no other woman who could be wearing men’s trousers and be dripping such as ye are and look quite so lovely. It’s a right shame your mother is marrying you off to that great sot!”
I had turned to call back to him, “I doubt very much we will have to worry about that after today!”
― The BlueStocking Girl
I had turned to call back to him, “I doubt very much we will have to worry about that after today!”
― The BlueStocking Girl
![Irvine Welsh](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1461084249i/5687._UY200_CR18,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Ah sortay jist laugh whin some cats say that racism's an English thing and we're aw Jock Tamson's bairn up here . . . it's likesay pure shite man, gadges talkin through their erses.”
― Trainspotting
― Trainspotting
![Amy Jarecki](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1407640326i/5306959._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“He pressed his lips to Akira’s ear. “Hold on, lass, for hell has just made chase.”
― The Highland Duke
― The Highland Duke
![Kerrigan Byrne](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1683088231i/5808498._UX200_CR0,60,200,200_.jpg)
“His eyes touched every part of her. Even parts that may never have been touched before. They flashed with lightning, singing along her nerves with electric currents of heat. A sultry, answering thunder whipped through her, calling forth a storm so unexpected, she almost felt betrayed by her own body.”
― The Highlander
― The Highlander
![Kerrigan Byrne](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1683088231i/5808498._UX200_CR0,60,200,200_.jpg)
“I don't think I believe in villains. Heroes either. Just people. People with agendas and the things they're willing to do to get what they want.”
― The Scot Beds His Wife
― The Scot Beds His Wife
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