“ They were apt vociferously to demand "reform" as if it were some concrete substance, like cake, which could be handed out at will, in tangible masses, if only the demand were urgent enough. These parlor reformers made up for inefficiency in action by zeal in criticising; and they delighted in criticising the men who really were doing the things which they said ought to be done, but which they lacked the sinewy power to do… ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
- 181
“ O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand! ”
- Walter Scott- Copy
- 632
“ It's guid to be merry and wise, It's guid to be honest and true, It's guid to support Caledonia's cause, And bide by the buff and the blue! ”
- Robert Burns- Copy
- 3.2K
“ I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Scotland is free! ”
- William Wallace- Copy
- 3.6K
“ In short, he and the Scotch have no way of redeeming the credit of their understandings, but by avowing that they have been consummate villains. Stavano bene; per star meglio, stanno qui. ”
- Horace Walpole- Copy
- 1.6K
“ It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding. ”
- Sydney Smith- Copy
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“ That knuckle-end of England — that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and sulphur. ”
- Sydney Smith- Copy
- 1K
“ In all my travels I never met with any one Scotchman but what was a man of sense. I believe everybody of that country that has any, leaves it as fast as they can. ”
- Francis Lockier- Copy
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“ The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom Nor forced him wander, but confine him home. ”
- John Cleveland- Copy
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“ 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? ”
- Charles Churchill- Copy
- 569
“ O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to heaven is sent; Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content. ”
- Robert Burns- Copy
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“ Hear, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots, Frae Maidenkirk to Johnie Groat's; - If there's a hole in a' your coats, I rede you tent it: A chield's amang you takin notes, And, faith, he'll prent it. ”
- Robert Burns- Copy
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“ The best thing I know between France and England is the sea. ”
- Douglas William Jerrold- Copy
- 508
“ Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still. ”
- Randolph Churchill- Copy
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“ There is a one woman in China that claimed she paid $50 to get my e-mail address. It was pretty shocking. I got one this morning from Scotland. A girl's requesting a signed photo of me. ”
- Michael Phelps- Copy
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“ Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand! ”
- Sir Walter Scott- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Only a few industrious Scots perhaps, who indeed are dispersed over the face of the whole earth. But as for them, there are no greater friends to Englishmen and England, when they are out on't, in the world, than they are. And for my own part, I would a hundred thousand of them were there for we are all one countrymen now, ye know, and we should find ten times more comfort of them there than we do here. ”
- George Chapman- Copy
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