Scotsmen Quotes

“He gave it the benefit of the doubt; he was Scotch.

("The Wendigo")”
― Algernon Blackwood, Monster Mix

“You think to judge me, MacKinnon? I've littered the ground wi' the corpses of men like you."

Iain raised his blade and smiled. "You've never met a man like me.”
― Pamela Clare, Surrender

“The face is a plain one," said Hugh, "but the workings inside will not fail ye.”
― Susanna Kearsley, A Desperate Fortune

“On bottom... Fellows studied the blue and green Mackenzie plaid kilt laid out across his bed. He'd worn it before, at Christmas at Kilmorgan, feeling strange with wool wrapping his hips, air circulating his thighs. Scotsmen had to be mad.”
― Jennifer Ashley, The Untamed MacKenzie

“Mr. Maclean, the secretary of the Central Board of Health, on hearing that there was to be so large an assemblage of pure Scotchmen at the Freemason's, called upon Cuff, and told him it was his duty to guard againt all chances of infection. Mr. Cuff was directed to wash the walls thoroughly with chloride of lime, both before and after the meeting. The hall has, we are informed, undergone a complete fumegation, so that there is no cause to fear that ill consequences will arise from the circumstance of so extensive a body of our fellow-countrymen having met together.”
― William Maginn, Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Volume 5