A Quote by Hugh Grant

The angry Scot is a cliche not without some foundation. That's the Lowland Scot - I'm a Highlander. We're particularly lovely and charming.

Hugh Grant

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Hugh Grant
English - Actor
Born: September 9, 1960

I happen to consider myself a Highlander even before a Scot; I am proud to be British yet feel comfortable as a European citizen.

Charles Kennedy

I find no contradiction between being a Highlander, a Scot, a citizen of the U.K. and a citizen of the European Union at one and the same time.

Charles Kennedy

No one leaves a long-term relationship scot-free or without conflict.

Susie Orbach

Today a Scot is leading a British army in France [Field Marshall Douglas Haig], another is commanding the British Grand Fleet at sea [Admiral David Beatty], while a third directs the Imperial General Staff at home [Sir William Roberton]. The Lord Chancellor is a Scot [Viscount Finlay]; so are the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Foreign Secretary [Bonar Law and Arthur Balfour]. The Prime Minister is a Welshman [David Lloyd George], and the First Lord of the Admiralty is an Irishman [Lord Carson]. Yet no one has ever brought in a bill to give home rule to England!

John Hay Beith

Although I'm a Scot, I'd be proud to be called a Scouser.

Bill Shankly

That's how I got my name, you know. The Bonny scot, see?

Bon Scott

Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.

Francois Rabelais

In the '80s, to get a contemporary Scot who was smart, sexy and funny was very unusual.

Denis Lawson

A Scot is a man who keeps the Sabbath, and everything else he can lay his hands on.

Chic Murray

Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year.

E. O. Wilson

After a while, you get tired of being the official Scot and defending everything Scottish.

Philip Kerr

An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath.

C. S. Lewis

Nobody thought Mel Gibson could play a Scot, but look at him now! Alcoholic and a racist!

Frankie Boyle

As a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be prime minister.

Boris Johnson

In my bones, I feel like a Scot. I always have. My mum's from Doncaster, so whatever that is as a combination of Scotland and Yorkshire. It isn't southern.