Scots Public Register

Famous quotes containing the words scots, public and/or register:

    “Haf owre, haf owre to Aberdour,
    It’s fiftie fadom deip,
    And thair lies guid Sir Patrick Spence,
    Wi the Scots lords at his feit.”
    —Unknown. Sir Patrick Spens (l. 41–44)

    “To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.”
    —Simone Weil (1909–1943)

    “Never to walk from the station’s lamps and laurels
    Carrying my father’s lean old leather case
    Crumbling like the register at the hotel....”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)