Scottish Affairs Select

Famous quotes containing the words scottish, affairs and/or select:

    “Our noble King, King Henery the eighth,
    Ouer the riuer of Thames past hee.”
    —Unknown. Sir Andrew Barton. . .

    English and Scottish Ballads (The Poetry Bookshelf)

    “There is a very holy and a very terrible isolation for the conscience of every man who seeks to read the destiny in affairs for others as well as for himself, for a nation as well as for individuals. That privacy no man can intrude upon. That lonely search of the spirit for the right perhaps no man can assist.”
    —Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

    “We must select the Illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.”
    —Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)