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Robert Burns

Read through the most famous quotes from Robert Burns




The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agle


— Robert Burns


#men

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!


— Robert Burns


#inhumanity #makes #man #mourn #thousands

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.


— Robert Burns


#collar #gentleman #him #his #lettered

Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!


— Robert Burns


#cant #characters #decorum #lose #them

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.


— Robert Burns


#critics #fame #paths #those

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.


— Robert Burns


#character #complaint #cowardly #despised #enduring

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.


— Robert Burns


#dying #gets #guy #instead #opera

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.


— Robert Burns


#fear #honest #labor #to be honest

Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.


— Robert Burns


#heavy #impedes #more #protects #suspicion

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.


— Robert Burns


#armour #defensive #existence #favourite #i






About Robert Burns

Robert Burns Quotes




Did you know about Robert Burns?

He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language although much of his writing is also in English and a light Scots dialect accessible to an audience beyond Scotland. The Clydesdale Bank's notes were redesigned in 2009 and since then he has been pictured on the front of their £10 note. Meanwhile in November 1790 he had written "Tam O' Shanter".

As well as making original compositions Burns also collected folk songs from across Scotland often revising or adapting them. Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796) (also known as Robbie BurnsRabbie Burns Scotland's favourite son the Ploughman Poet Robden of Solway Firth the Bard of Ayrshire and in Scotland as The Bard) was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is regarded as a pioneer of the Romantic movement and after his death he became a great source of inspiration to the founders of both liberalism and socialism and a cultural icon in Scotland and among the Scottish Diaspora around the world.

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