SCOTTISH QUOTATIONS

Never trust a man who, left alone with a tea cosy in a room, doesn't try it on Billy Connolly once said, and Janice Galloway In Scotland, talking about yourself is considered the eighth deadly sin. The Scots have always had a reputation for clarity of thought and also for the vigour with which it is put into words. This collection spans the entire gamut of a nation's recorded thought and experience from Roman Scotland to the present day. It covers the literary to the colloquial and bawdy, via advice, aphorisms, the animal kingdom, art, childhood, commerce, costume, death, education, family, fantasy, food, human nature, landscape, law, medicine, music, politics, religion, the sea, weather, sport, reflections, war, language, writers and more. Packed with sharp observation and humour, it sounds other notes too. Meditative, triumphant, tragic, accusing, tender - and often hilarious - it reveals the spirit of Scotland in a truly unique way. 160 page paperback.