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Insults and Insulting
Quotes about Scotland
I
have been trying all my life to like Scotsmen, and am obliged to desist from
the experiment in despair
Charles Lamb
It
requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotsman's understanding
Sidney Smith
Scotland
is a vile country, though God made it, but we must remember that he made it
for Scotsmen, and comparisons are odious, but God also made Hell
Samuel Johnson
Oats:
a grain which in England is generally given to a horse, but in Scotland it supports
the people
Samuel Johnson
Scotsmen
take all they can get - and a little more if they can
Scottish
saying
The
great thing about Glasgow now is that if there is a nuclear attack it'll look
exactly the same afterwards
Billy Connolly
Much
may be made of a Scotsman, if he is caught young
Samuel Johnson
The
noblest prospect which a Scotman ever sees, is the high road that leads him
to England
Samuel Johnson
There
are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make
James Barrie
The
Scot is a fine fellow whose father toils witha muck fork, he is the bandy legged
lout from Tullietudlescleugh, who after a childhood of intamcy with the cess pool,
and the crab house, and twelve month at "the college" on money's wrung
from the diet of his family drops his threadbare kilt and comes south in a slop
suit to instruct the English in the arts of civilisation...
TWH
Crosland
The Scotchman
is one who keeps the Sabbath and every other thing he can lay his hands on.
American saying
You've forgotten
the grandest moral attribute of a Scotsman, Maggie, that he'll do nothing which
might damage his career.
J. M. Barrie, What Every Woman Knows, 1906
As hard-hearted
as a Scot of Scotland.
English saying
Jews, Scotchmen
and counterfeits will be encountered throughout the world.
German saying
DR. JOHNSON:
Sir, it is a very vile country.
MR. S: Well, sir, God made it.
DR. JOHNSON: Certainly he did, but we must remember that He made it for Scotchmen.
Comparisons are odious, Mr. S, but God made Hell.
Dr Samuel Johnson, A journey to the "Western Islands of Scotland,
1775
I have been
trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obligated to desist from the experiment
in despair.
Charles Lamb, British essayist and writer
Give a Scotsman
an inch and he'll take a mile.
Scottish saying
Three failures
and a fire make a Scotsman's fortune.
Scottish saying
Scotsmen tak
a' they can get - and a little more if they can.
Scottish saying
That garret
of the earth, the knuckle-end of England, that land of Calvin, oat-cakes and sulphur.
Sydney Smith, British clergyman, essayist and wit
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