The Scots have always been renowned for their straight-talking.

Often abrasive, often insightful, often purely insulting, always to the point.

Here's a collection of genuine quotes from some of Scotland's most forthright personalities, past and present.

There are Bill Shankly quotations, Saki quotations, Tommy Docherty quotations, Lewis Grassic Gibbon quotations, Tommy Sheridan quotations, Robert Louis Stevenson quotations, quotations about Scotland and the Scots, Chic Murray quotations, in fact, enough Scotttish quotations to keep you enthralled for hours.