Scottish Renaissance
Scottish renaissance is an intellectual or artistic movement that has shaped the ideas of many notable thinkers throughout history.
7 thinkers18 quotesTop field: Literature
"Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast."
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🇬🇧Compton Mackenzie
Literature
Scottish Renaissance
1883–1972
"Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast."
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🇬🇧Edwin Morgan
Literature
Scottish Renaissance
1920–2007
"Valentine WeatherKiss me with rain on your eyelashes,come on, let us sway together,under the trees, and to hell with thunder."
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🇬🇧A. J. Cronin
Medicine
Scottish Renaissance
1896–1981
"Even if my country remains at war with yours . . . remember ... I am not your enemy."
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🇬🇧Hugh MacDiarmid
Literature
Scottish Renaissance
1892–1978
"The number of people who can copulate properly may be few; the number who can write well are infinitely fewer."
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🇬🇧Edwin Muir
Literature
Scottish Renaissance
1887–1959
"The curse of Scottish literature is the lack of a whole language, which finally means the lack of a whole mind."
3 quotes
🇬🇧James Bridie
Literature
Scottish Renaissance
1888–1951
"I sat through the first act and heard my lovely lines falling like cold porridge on a damp mattress."
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🇬🇧Patrick Geddes
Science
Scottish Renaissance
1854–1932
1 quotes
Notable Quotes
"Valentine WeatherKiss me with rain on your eyelashes,come on, let us sway together,under the trees, and to hell with thunder."
— Edwin Morgan, b. 1920View →
"Even if my country remains at war with yours . . . remember ... I am not your enemy."
— A. J. Cronin, b. 1896View →
"You are extraordinarily attractive to women. And your greatest charm is that you do not realise it."
— A. J. Cronin, b. 1896View →
"Some temptations cannot be fought. One must close one's mind and fly from them."
— A. J. Cronin, b. 1896View →
"Text of Cronin's autobiography, Adventures in Two Worlds"
— A. J. Cronin, b. 1896View →