Quotes by Scottish Authors

If it be good to come under the love of God once, surely it is good to keep ourselves there. And yet how reluctant we are!
Andrew Bonar
Awake, my soul! Why should I give hours and days any longer to the vain world, when there is such a world of misery at my very door? Lord, put thine own strength in me; confirm every good resolution; forgive my past long life of uselessness and folly.
Andrew Bonar
He must have courage, not the physical courage required on a battlefield but the moral courage to make and carry out decisions that might directly counter to the wishes of his superiors. He must have great willpower. and, perhaps above all, he must have the gift of leadership.
Alistair MacLean
You were what you were and you are what you are. Fuck that regrets bullshit.
Irvine Welsh
For example, in Paris, if one desires to buy something, you enter the store and say "Good morning, sir" or "madam," depending on what is appropriate, you wait until you are greeted, you make polite chitchat about the weather or some such, and when the salesperson asks what they can do for you, then and only then do you bring up the vulgar business of the transaction you require.
Craig Ferguson
This is what you British do not understand about the French. You think you must work, work, work, work and open on Sundays and make mothers and fathers with families slave in supermarkets at three o'clock in the morning and make people leave their homes and their churches and their children and go shopping on Sundays.''Their shops are open on Sundays?' said Benoît in surprise.'Yes! They make people work on Sundays! And through lunchtimes! But for what? For rubbish from China? For cheap clothes sewed by poor women in Malaysia? For why? So you can go more often to KFC and get full of fried chicken? You would rather have six bars of bad chocolate than one bar of good chocolate. Why? Why are six bad things better than one good thing? I don't understand.
Jenny Colgan
Reticence was clearly a national characteristic, even if the other person spoke French.
Sara Sheridan
Property has its duties as well as its rights.
Thomas Drummond
Many of us do not continue to grow spiritually because we prefer to choose on the basis of our rights, instead of relying on God to make the choice for us.
Oswald Chambers
He could quite quickly become detached from the nuances of common human emotion. Particularly if he was engaged in some aspect of a scientific problem or research. His work excluded any consideration for the feelings of those around him. And he rarely excused himself or justified his behavior. It was as if he was compelled to focus all his energy on one subject and was unaware that others did not follow his obsession.
Theresa Breslin
{Iola Speaking} "The only time I seem to get you to actually say something is over coffee, so let’s latte.
Craig Robertson
Mirabelle sat down, dropping into the cushions like a ball being caught in a large leather glove.
Sara Sheridan
Gaining heaven, being delivered from sin, and being made useful to God are things that should never even be a consideration in real surrender.
Oswald Chambers
God cannot deliver me while my interest is merely in my own character. Paul was not conscious of himself. He was recklessly abandoned, totally surrendered, and separated by God for one purpose--to proclaim the gospel of God.
Oswald Chambers
This total surrender to 'the love of Christ' is the only thing that will bear fruit in your life. And it will always leave the mark of God's holiness and His power, never drawing attention to your personal holiness.
Oswald Chambers
To be surrendered to God is of more value than our personal holiness.
Oswald Chambers
Beware of surrender that is motivated by personal benefits that may result.
Oswald Chambers
Our ordinary and reasonable service to God may actually compete against our total surrender to Him.
Oswald Chambers
A city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time
Patrick Geddes
Ah sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth and none or almost none for the disenchantments of age.
Robert Louis Stevenson
For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself.
Robert Louis Stevenson
There is but one art to omit.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Adversity is like the period of the rain ... cold comfortless unfriendly to man and to animal yet from that season have their birth the flower the fruit the date the rose and the pomegranate.
Sir Walter Scott
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow but only saps today of its strength.
A.J. Cronin
Give me a man who sings at his work.
Thomas Carlyle
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive and the true success is to labour.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
Thomas Carlyle
If a man loves the labour of his trade apart from any question of success or fame the gods have called him.
Robert Louis Stevenson
He that can work is a born king of something.
Thomas Carlyle
All work is seed sown. It grows and spreads and sows itself anew.
Thomas Carlyle
Wonder is the basis of worship.
Thomas Carlyle
And let us mind faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair.
James Drummond Burns
Never wedding ever wooing Still a lovelorn heart pursuing Read you not the wrong you're doing In my cheek's pale hue? All my life with sorrow strewing Wed or cease to woo.
Thomas Campbell
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
Sir Walter Scott
In the beginning said a Persian poet - Allah took a rose a lily a dove a serpent a little honey a Dead Sea apple and a handful of clay. When he looked at the amalgram - it was a woman.
William Sharp
You see dear it is not true that woman was made from man's rib she was really made from his funny bone.
Sir James Matthew Barrie
Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
Tobias Smollett
She is a winsome wee thing She is a handsome wee thing She is a bonny wee thing This sweet wee wife o' mine.
James Drummond Burns
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his life-time for the good of the community.
Andrew Carnegie
What millions died - that Caesar might be great!
Thomas Campbell
Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled Scots wham Bruce has aften led Welcome to your gory bed Or to victorie.
Robert Burns
A fair day's wages for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of government.
Thomas Carlyle
The Saints are the Sinners who keep on trying.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion.
James Drummond Burns
The west is broken into bars Of orange gold and gray Gone is the sun come are the stars And night infolds the day.
George MacDonald
To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
George MacDonald
True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire Whose wishes soon as granted fly It liveth not in fierce desire.
Sir Walter Scott
For my part I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Robert Louis Stevenson
It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Some hae meat and canna eat And some wad eat that want it But we hae meat and we can eat And sae the Lord be thankit.
James Drummond Burns
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.
Alexander Smith
The present is the living sum-total of the whole past.
Thomas Carlyle
In my end is my beginning.
Mary Stuart
God gave us memory that we might have roses in December.
Sir James M. Barrie
It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.
George MacDonald
It is not the cares of today but the cares of tomorrow that weigh a man down. For the needs of today we have corresponding strength given. For the morrow we are told to trust. It is not ours yet.
George MacDonald
The future is not a gift - it is an achievement.
Harry Lauder
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
W. M. Taylor
For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.
Thomas Campbell
Of a truth men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
Thomas Carlyle