Robert Burns Quotes

Scottish - Poet January 25, 1759 - July 21, 1796

It is natural for a young fellow to like the acquaintance of females and customary for him to keep them company when occasion serves. Some one of them is more agreeable to him than the rest; there is something, he knows not what, pleases him, he knows not how, in her company. This I take to be what is called love with the greatest part of us.

Robert Burns

The appellation of a Scottish Bard is by far my highest pride; to continue to deserve it is my most exalted ambition.

Robert Burns

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

Robert Burns

There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience.

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

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Robert Burns

I foresee that poverty and obscurity probably await me, and I am in some measure prepared and daily preparing to meet them.

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

There is something so mean and unmanly in the arts of dissimulation and falsehood that I am surprised they can be used by anyone in so noble, so generous a passion as virtuous love.

Robert Burns