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Quotes About Kilt

I happened to see a really old 'Doctor Who', the second Doctor, Patrick Troughton, and he'd picked up a Scotsman from 1745. It was an 18 or 19-year-old man who appeared in a kilt, and I thought, 'That's rather fetching.'
~ Diana Gabaldon
Basically, I'm in a kilt and a white shirt every day. So, you know, I don't have a lot of scope, and I'm really picky about what I wear. Even if it's weird, it's very particular to me. And you can't make a business out of what I would wear. We'd be out of business.
~ Marc Jacobs
You do have to learn how to wear a kilt, and it's certainly very liberating and very freeing, but surprisingly very comfortable to wear, to ride a horse in a kilt. I was surprised by that.
~ Sam Heughan
A mother with an infant but without a father was not welcomed in the new world. "You kilt it." "She kilt it." "I had no milk for it," she answered back.
~ Edna O'Brien
I went to an all-girls school in a uniform and always got detention for wearing colorful boxer shorts under my kilt.
~ Tory Burch
At my real wedding, I wore traditional Celtic garb - a kilt.
~ Chris Sullivan
After four hundred and ninety-three years of teleporting from one place to another, Angus Mackay still felt an urge to peek under his kilt to ensure everything had arrived in fine working condition. There were some areas where a man, vampire or not, would hate to find himself shortchanged.
~ Kerrelyn Sparks
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
Walker is going to college — in Scotland ." Sadie-Grace said Scotland like Walker might as well have been attending university on Mars. "Boone keeps asking him to mail home haggis and a kilt, but either that's illegal or Walker just really doesn't want to.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
We may thus conclude that the kilt is a purely modern costume, first designed, and first worn, by an English Quaker industrialist, and that it was bestowed by him on the Highlanders in order not to preserve their traditional way of life but to ease its transformation: to bring them out of the heather and into the factory.
~ Eric J. Hobsbawm
They had kilts on instead of pants, but you just didn't see six feet-plus of immortal warrior panicking about anything often, but panicking in a kitchen with pots in their hands and the oven open while they peered inside in a puzzled manner was a very special and endearing type of panic.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
So do you have a kilt?" Megan asked him. When I glared at her, she said, "What? He only said you couldn't ask." She looked at him. "So do you?" Straightening up, Zachary rubbed the back of his neck and smirked. "I might, I might." God, he was gorgeous. And Scottish. But maybe kind of an ass.
~ Jeri Smith-Ready
Female clothing seems to be extremely difficult and almost like a puzzle for a man to take off. But I think if you get there, you win. A kilt is the complete opposite. The kilt is so easy to take off.
~ Sam Heughan
I did 'Formula 51' because I got to run around Liverpool in a kilt, with golf clubs.
~ Samuel L. Jackson
Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order.
~ Spike Milligan
I lost the accent years ago, but I'm still very proud to be Scottish, and I love wearing a kilt.
~ Steve Valentine
Wee Archie was wielding a shepherd's crook that, as Tommy remarked later, no shepherd would be found dead with, and he was wearing a kilt that no Highlander would dream of being found alive in.
~ Josephine Tey
A Scottish, mopping his brow with his kilt was accused of indecent exposure!
~ Fabrice
If you want something Scottish, go get yourself a kilt.
~ Marcus Brigstocke
They were scrawny, even by Feegle standards, with barely a wisp of beard hair between them and impractically low-slung spogs knocking about their knees, their kilts hung low on their skinny hips. To Tiffany's amazement, she could see the top bands of colored pants riding high above them. pants? On a Feegle? The times were indeed changing. Pull yon kilts up, lads! Ron muttered as they pushed their way past.
~ Terry Pratchett
To make matters worse, Linda, it appears, is madly in love with a monster of a Scotsman, who came to dinner last night in his kilt. Those hairy old knees decided us. The Mountains I can bear, said Loudie. Natives in the semi-nude at dinner time is another matter. I leave tomorrow.
~ Nancy Mitford
Join a Highland regiment, me boy. The kilt is an unrivalled garment for fornication and diarrhoea.
~ Graham Lord
Aye, wumman, if it's truly romantic, then it must be Scottish
~ P.C. Cast
The Black Watch is one of the most illustrious regiments. They've been at the vanguard of British military operations for 400 years. Something they're very proud of is what they call 'The Golden Thread,' where you can trace a line back from them to the first Black Watch soldiers who were from the Highlands, spoke Gaelic, and wore the kilt.
~ John Tiffany