Quotes About Scotland

In some respects, the Scottish Enlightenment, in the eighteenth century, had been an anticipation of later developments in Vienna: the same desire to systematise, to overthrow outworn structures, to rationalize. The secularisation of the Calvinist mind, and the secularisation of the Jews, gave early twentieth-century intellectual life its characteristic stamp.

Rhynia, haute de cinquante centimètres, doit son nom au lieu de sa découverte dans le comté de Rhynie, en Écosse, où elle fut engloutie lors d'une éruption volcanique. Il y a des Pompéi de fleurs.

He got to his feet, and laughed suddenly, without humour. 'I recall Pierre complaining that Scotland is by far too full of strong-minded women. He was right there.

The world is full of high-handed women,' he complained. 'Certainly Scotland is,' agreed Gil.

arriving from Scotland, she had cried herself

Woman, I've crushed more Campbells than ye'll ever know, and Ill go to my grave with a Campbell's heart clutched within my fingers." "Will that heart be mine, my laird?" "It might.