Scotland Quotes
- From the lone shieling of the misty island
Mountains divide us, and the waste of seas –
Yet still the blood is strong, the heart is Highland,
And we in dreams behold the Hebrides!
Fair these broad meads, these hoary woods are grand;
But we are exiles from our fathers’ land. - View Quote Details on From the lone shieling of the misty island
Mountains divide us,… - 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. - View Quote Details on O Caledonia! stern and wild,
Meet nurse for a poetic child!
Land… - The rose of all the world is not for me.
I want for my part
Only the little white rose of Scotland
That smells sharp and sweet - and breaks the heart. - View Quote Details on The rose of all the world is not for me.
I… - Seeing Scotland, Madam, is only seeing a worse England. It is seeing the flower gradually fade away to the naked stalk. - View Quote Details on Seeing Scotland, Madam, is only seeing a worse England. It…
- My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here;
My heart’s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer. - View Quote Details on My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here;
My… - From the time of the North Briton of the unprincipled Wilkes, a notion has been entertained that the moral spine in Scotland is more flexible than in England. The truth however is, that an elementary difference exists in the public feelings of the two nations quite as great as in the idioms of their respective dialects. The English are a justice-loving people, according to charter and statute; the Scotch are a wrong-resenting race, according to right and feeling: and the character of liberty among them takes its aspect from that peculiarity. - View Quote Details on From the time of the North Briton of the unprincipled…
About Scotland
Scotland is a country forming the northernmost third of Great Britain. An independent kingdom until 1707, it is now a constituent part of United Kingdom with limited powers of self-government.
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