Francis Scott

Francis Scott may refer to:

  • Francis Scott, 2nd Earl of Buccleuch
  • Francis Scott, 2nd Duke of Buccleuch, Scottish nobleman
  • F. R. Scott (1899–1985), Canadian poet, intellectual and constitutional expert
  • Francis Scott (MP) (1806–1884), British politician
  • Francis George Scott (1880–1958), Scottish composer

Famous quotes containing the words francis and/or scott:

    “Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.”
    —St. Francis Of Assisi (c. 1182–1226)

    “I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of it, in pieces, to preserve its essential value has some sort of epic grandeur.”
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)