Quotes by Scotland There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know well that I have it in me to make my name famous. No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done. And what is the result? There is no crime to detect, or, at most, some bungling villainy with a motive so transparent that even a Scotland Yard official can see through it. Arthur Conan Doyle scotland names men It's Brazil 2 Scotland 1, so Scotland are back where they were at the start of the match Barry Davies scotland brazil football Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows - the south and east oriels - are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising. Bayard Taylor scotland flower beautiful Remember I've seen a video tape of a Scotland-England match and I've seen him miss a chance from five yards. It was against England and he couldn't score. So what does that say? Berti Vogts scotland football soccer I think Scotland has some great stories. Billy Boyd scotland stories thinking After I've been in America for a while, I get homesick for Scotland. Billy Boyd homesick scotland america There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter. Billy Connolly scotland winter travel Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace. Billy Connolly scotland team football I love Scotland and I speak about it a lot, so people think I'm desperate to go back. They just take it upon themselves to say I'm going back, but I'm not. I'd rather concentrate on becoming a citizen of the world. Billy Connolly scotland people thinking The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things... after the weather. Billy Connolly scotland weather religion We who represent the Unionist Party in England and Scotland have supported, and we mean to support to the end, the loyal minority [in Ireland]. We support them not because we are intolerant, but because their claims are just. Bonar Law scotland party mean I love Scotland - I was made an honorary Wallace after my work on 'Braveheart,' you know. If I have two or three days off, I love nothing more than driving up there and climbing around Glencoe. Brian Blessed scotland climbing two Devolving APD to Scotland is merely tinkering with it. We have to get shot of this hated tax right across the country to ensure all of our airports are competing on level terms. Brian Donohoe scotland airports country There's not really the appetite in Wales at the moment to become an independent country. Scotland is in a different place. Carwyn Jones scotland independent country A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea. Catherine Helen Spence scotland glasses tea The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride; True is the charge, nor by themselves denied. Are they not then in strictest reason clear, Who wisely come to mend their fortunes here? Charles Churchill scotland cry pride It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea. Charles Lyell scotland marine beach The old truth that Calvin preached, that Augustine preached, that Paul preached, is the truth that I must preach to-day, or else be false to my conscience and my God. I cannot shape the truth; I know of no such thing as paring off the rough edges of a doctrine. John Knox's gospel is my gospel. That which thundered through Scotland must thunder through England again. Charles Spurgeon scotland rough-edges doctrine James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster. Charlotte Mary Yonge scotland space travel L.A. is fun, but it feels like one of those towns in the north of Scotland where there's an oil rig just off the coast and whether or not you work for the oil rig, everyone is connected to it. Chris O'Dowd scotland oil fun «1234567891011»