«Tartan»

We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.

Voltaire

Scotland is one of the most hauntingly beautiful places in the world, the history is fascinating, the men are handsome and the whisky is delicious.

JK Rowling

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

Winston Churchill

The Glasgow invention of square-toed shoes was to enable the Glasgow man to get closer to the bar.

Jack House

If a Frenchman goes on about seagulls, trawlers and sardines, he’s called a philosopher. I’d just be called a short Scottish bum talking crap.

Gordon Strachan

In such a competitive world I believe it is my Scottish roots that have enabled me to keep a sincere and realistic approach to everything I do.

Nicola Benedetti

Poetry, the reading of it, the writing of it, the saying it out loud, the learning of it off by heart, matters deeply to ordinary Scottish people everywhere.

Liz Lochhead

Look at Scottish guys wearing kilts - you could look at them and laugh, but the way they carry themselves, how can you?

Andre Benjamin

Nowhere beats the heart so kindly as beneath the tartan plaid.

William Edmondstoune Aytoun

Two negatives make a positive but only in Scotland do two positives make a negative: aye right.

Frankie Boyle

Our Scottish theory … is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country.

Arthur James Balfour

The poetic side of me is Scottish.

Annie Lennox

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

JM Barrie

Scotland small? Our multiform, infinite Scotland SMALL?

Hugh MacDiarmid

There’s nothing quite like a Scotch education. One is left with an irreparable debt. My head is full of irregular verbs still.

Ivor Cutler

The birth-place of Valour, the country of Worth;

Wherever I wander, wherever I rove,

The hills of the Highlands for ever I love.

Robert Burns

The mark of a Scot of all classes [is that] he ... remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or bad; and there burns alive in him a sense of identity with the dead even to the twentieth generation.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Touch his head, and he will bargain and argue with you to the last; Touch his heart, and he falls upon your breast. (about Scottish character)

Andrew Carnegie

There are two seasons in Scotland. June and winter.

Billy Connolly

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