Robert Burns Quotes

O my Luve’s like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June:
O my Luve’s like the melodie
That’s sweetly play’d in tune!

– Robert Burns

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

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

– Robert Burns

And there begins a lang digression about the lords o’ the creation.

– Robert Burns

The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.

– Robert Burns

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

– Robert Burns

Affliction’s sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

– Robert Burns

Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!

– Robert Burns

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

– Robert Burns

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

– Robert Burns

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.

– Robert Burns

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

– Robert Burns

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

– Robert Burns

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

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

– Robert Burns