"Until very recently, it had been my opinion that the best way to see Glasgow was from an aeroplane, or, at the very least, by driving through at eighty miles an hour with the windows wound up."
—Alan Moore, "I Belong to Glasgow"
'Seefy tries enythin wi me, eez fuckin fucked. Av git steel toecaps and nay fuckin tolerance.note
— Cameron Spector, The Filth
"Ah, it still makes me proud to be Scottish, a man on fire being kicked to death by the friendliest airport staff in the world."
— Jamsie Cotter, Rab C. Nesbitt - on the 2007 Glasgow airport terror attacks
FUCKIN' MON THEN!
— John "Smeato" Smeaton, Glasgow airport baggage handler, as he kicked a burning "suicide" bomber in the balls.
"I'm from Glasgow. If I had to explain Glasgow to you... I'd say that if I had to pick a city in the world... where I could depend on a member of the public... to punch a man who was on fire. To punch a flaming man! To the ground! We should get a photo of that blown up and use it as the welcome sign in Scottish airports. And underneath we should have the words "Scotland Welcomes Careful Drivers". I mean, the naiveté of Al-Qaeda trying to bring religious war to Glasgow. We're four hundred years ahead of you guys. You've not even got a football team."
— Frankie Boyle, also on the failed 2007 Glasgow airport attacks.
"Who attacks Glasgow?! One of the suicide bombers was rugby tackled! How tough do you have to be to watch a car plow into a building on fire, a guy gets out in flames, runs across the terminal, and you go "Fuckin' watch this!" *lunges* ... A car came into the airport, a guy fell out of it. He's rolling around on the ground on fire. I turn to the police officer next to me, I said "Should we help him?" He said "No, let the fucker burn!"
— Adam Hills
, also on the airport attacks.
, also on the airport attacks.''...rumors surfaced of extremists who had infiltrated the UK, including one in Glasgow. To which, I'm assuming, all of Glasgow said "Ah fuckin' dare ya."
— Adam Hills on The Last Leg.
on The Last Leg.Lee Mack: What's on your rider list, Frankie? (mock Glaswegian accent) Six cans of bitter and a knife!
Frankie Boyle: Yeah, six cans of bitter for a teetotal alcoholic!
Lee Mack: Only Frankie Boyle could complain about the fact that I mentioned alcohol and not mention the knife! (puts on the Glaswegian accent again) "I'll take the knife, but don't accuse me of drinkin'!"
"What do you think of that, Mr. Pajama-Wearing, Basket-Face, Slipper-Wielding, Clype-Dreep-Bachle, Gether-Uping-Blate-Maw, Bleathering, Gomeril, Jessie, Oaf-Looking, Scooner, Nyaff, Plookie, Shan, Milk-Drinking, Soy-Faced Shilpit, Mim-Moothed, Sniveling, Worm-Eyed, Hotten-Blaugh, Vile-Stoochie, Cally-Breek-Tattie?!"
— The Scotsman, Samurai Jack
Demoman (voiceover): So, t'all you fine dandies so proud, so cock-sure, prancin' aboot with yer heads full of eyeballs! Come an' get me, I say! I'll be waitin' on ya with a whiff o' the ol' brimstone! I'M A GRIM BLOODY FABLE! WITH AN UNHAPPY BLOODY END!
[enemy team passes through a doorway and notice it is surrounded by sticky bombs, which explode and turn them into Ludicrous Gibs]
Demoman (on-screen): [laughs, then bends down and speaks to the gibs] Oh, they're goin' ta have ta glue you back together... IN HELL!
[enemy team passes through a doorway and notice it is surrounded by sticky bombs, which explode and turn them into Ludicrous Gibs]
Demoman (on-screen): [laughs, then bends down and speaks to the gibs] Oh, they're goin' ta have ta glue you back together... IN HELL!
— Team Fortress 2, "Meet the Demoman"
"Don't feel bad for losin'. I was wrestlin' wolves back when you were at your mother's teat!"
— Groundskeeper Willie, The Simpsons, "Marge Gets A Job", to the Alaskan timber wolf he just beat
"Does your granny sew?"
— Traditional Pre-Asskicking One-Liner, followed by an act of violence and "Well, then tell her tae stitch that!"
"...To allow cold steel into the hands of a Glasgow man is tantamount to running guns to the Apaches."
"Spite Douggie, would ye? Take that! (rams the Spiteful Brakevan)"
— Donald The Tender Engine, Thomas & Friends
Doctor Rick Dagless MD: The cabin crew suggested we all go out and club it. I had no option. It was that or one of their B&Bs. I figured it'd be safer on the streets. For the first time ever, I saw the Scotch in their natural habitat, and it weren't pretty. I'd seen them huddling in stations before, being loud but... this time, I was surrounded. Everywhere I went, it felt like they were watching me; fish-white flesh puckered by the Highland breeze; tight eyes peering out for fresh meat; screechy, booze-soaked voices hollering out for a taxi to take 'em halfway up the road to the next all-night watering hole. A shatter of glass; a round of applause; a sixteen-year-old mother of three vomiting in an open sewer, bairns looking on, chewing on potato cakes. I ain’t never going back... not never.
Doctor Lucien Sanchez: My aunt lives in Scotland. She says it's quite nice.
Doctor Rick Dagless MD: She's wrong.
"I'll knock ye the fuck out, mate!"
— William Wallace, Epic Rap Battles of History, to his opponent George Washington
"I think that'd be an honest GPS. It'd go, (Scottish accent) 'There's your turn! You fucking missed it, you idiot! Take one more left turn! Take another left turn! Deja fucking vu!'"
— Robin Williams, on a Scottish GPS
"ENOUGH! YE ARE STILL HERE? THEN ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! TOMORROW I LED MY MEN OUT OF THE WALLS INTO YE MIDST! I WILL RIDE THROUGH YE AS IF YE WERE WATER! I WILL CUT YE DOWN AS IF YE WERE WHEAT AND I A SCYTHE! I WILL BRING DEATH AND HELL WITH ME, MY BROTHER AND NEPHEW AT MY SIDE, MY MEN BEHIND ME, SCOTLAND WILL RIDE OVER YE AND YE'LL DIE! AYE, AND THEN YE'LL RUN, AND I WILL CHASE YE, AND EVEN IF YE FLED OVER THE OCEANS I WOULD COME FOR YE, AND YE'D HIDE BEHIND YE WALLS AND I WILL STILL COME, AND KILL YE, YE WIVES, YE CHILDREN, YE ANIMALS, AND I'D TEAR DOWN YE HOMES, AND BURN THE TREES AND GRASS AND Salt the Earth, AND STILL MY FURY WILL NAE BE QUENCHED! YE WILL HAVE UNLEASHED DEATH ON YE AND EVERYTHING YE LOVE, AND THE FAULT WILL BE ALL YE OWN! NOW. GET. OUT. OF. MY. EMPIRE!"
— King Edward, A Scotsman in Egypt
"That is the problem with Scotland, I find. You never know whether the next person you meet is going to offer you his bone marrow or nut you with his forehead."
— Bill Bryson, The Road to Little Dribbling
Oswin: Do you know how you make someone into a Dalek? Subtract love, add anger. Doesn't she seem a bit too angry to you?
Amy: Well, somebody's never been to Scotland!
Amy: Well, somebody's never been to Scotland!
— Doctor Who, "Asylum of the Daleks"
"If ya plan on usin' them hands ever again, you'd best not go touchin' that what ain't yers."
— Ulthane, Darksiders
"It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine."
— P. G. Wodehouse, "The Custody of the Pumpkin"
"Fighting. Yes, fighting. One of the very many things that we, the Scots, invented. A cultural belief and national pastime. Families here have fought for generations: I will fight with you, as my father fought with your father, as my grandfather fought with your grandfather, going all the way back to 1321, because one of your ancestors stole a cow from us.
...I don't care if it's been 700 years. Give us our cow back."
...I don't care if it's been 700 years. Give us our cow back."
— Count Dankula, "Absolute Mad Lads - The Mad Dog, Xu Xiaodong"
”Iraq has a higher life expectancy than certain parts of Glasgow, and probably a better standard of football. I often wonder if the real reason the royals holiday in Balmoral is so they can use Scottish staff to teach their children about mortality, in the same way that you or I would let them have a hamster. ‘I’m afraid Old Jock’s dead son, but he was 35... in Scottish years that’s two World Cup qualifications...‘“
”From now on, it’s a proper fight. It’s a pub fight, Motherwell Rules. And Tom is gonna get a pint glass in his fuckin’ eye, and a pool cue up his arse, and another pool cue in his other fuckin’ eye!”
—Jamie McDondald, The Thick of It, “Spinners and Losers”
"DON'T FORGET ME!" "THINK YE CAN TAKE ME?" "YER DUN!" "PEPSQUEAK!" "THIS WILL SHUT YOU UP!" "TAKE A LOOK AT THIS!" "HERE'S HOO WE DO THINGS!"
