1886 Quotes by Scottish authors

Scottish words carry a wry, weathered wisdom: flinty humor, spare and humane, set against sea fret and heathered braes. They prize kin and keep faith, cherish craft, and question pomp with a twinkle. Thrift here is not stinginess but care; courage is stubborn, sung in ballads and spoken plain. The cadence can be kirk-still or ceilidh-warm, with Scots and Gaelic threading through. Expect clear-eyed melancholy, sudden tenderness, and a fierce sense of fairness, all rooted in place, memory, and hard-won joy.