Robert Burns Quotes

• And let us mind, faint heart ne’er wan A lady fair. Wha does the utmost that he can Will whyles do mair.

  Robert Burns

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  Tags in Heart, Mind

• To liken them to your auld-warld squad, I must needs say comparisons are odd.

  Robert Burns

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  Tags in Need, Comparison

• Duncan Gray cam here to woo, Ha, ha, the wooing o’t! On blithe Yuletide when we were fou, Ha, ha, the wooing o’t! Maggie coost her head fu’ high, Looked asklent and unco skeigh, Gart poor Duncan stand abeigh: Ha, ha! the wooing o’t!

  Robert Burns

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  Tags in Gray, Looked

• Yon rose-buds in the morning-dew, How pure amang the leaves sae green!

  Robert Burns

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  Tags in Morning, Leave

• Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

  Robert Burns

  Topics in Honesty, Work

  Tags in Labor

• A man’s a man for a’ that!

  Robert Burns

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• A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a’ that; But an honest man’s aboon his might: Guid faith, he maunna fa’ that.

  Robert Burns

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  Tags in Honest, Faith, Prince, Man

• The rank is but the guinea’s stamp, The man’s the gowd for a’ that.

  Robert Burns

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• Man,–whose heaven-erected face The smiles of love adorn,– Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!

  Robert Burns

  Topics in Love, Smile

  Tags in Man

• Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Though they may gang a’ kennin’ wrang To step aside is human.

  Robert Burns

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  Tags in Woman, Human

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

  Robert Burns

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  Tags in Opera, Dying, Instead

• Ilk cowslip cup shall kep a tear.

  Robert Burns

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  Tags in Cowslips, Tear

• Were such the wife had fallen to my part, I’d break her spirit, or I’d break her heart.

  Robert Burns

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  Tags in Heart, Wife, Break

• And wild-scatter’d cowslips bedeck the green dale.

  Robert Burns

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  Tags in Wild

• She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o’ mine.

  Robert Burns

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  Tags in Sweet, Wife

• Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And days o’ lang syne?

  Robert Burns

  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in Acquaintance, Forget

• O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel’s as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us. And foolish notion; What airs in dress and gait wad lea’e us, And ev’n devotion!

  Robert Burns

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Foolish

• Hear how he clears the points o’ Faith Wi’ rattling an’ thumpin’! Now meekly calm, now wild in wrath, He’s stampin’, and he’s jumpin’!

  Robert Burns

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  Tags in Preaching, Faith

• The landlady and Tam grew gracious Wi’ favours secret, sweet and precious.

  Robert Burns

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  Tags in Precious, Sweet, Secret

• John Anderson, my jo, John, When we were first acquent, Your locks were like the raven, Your bonny brow was brent.

  Robert Burns

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Robert Burns (56)

Birth:	25th January, 1759
Death:	21st July, 1796
Nationality:	Scottish
Profession:	Farmer, Poet

About

Robert Burns was a Scottish poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide. 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.

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