Walter Scott Quotes
O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spok...
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Show MoreA rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
O Woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain coy and hard to please And variable as the shade By the l...
Show MoreBreathes there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said This is my own my native ...
Show MoreHe that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth wh...
Show MoreCats are a mysterious kind of folk.
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance...
Show MoreHe is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out o...
Show MoreA Christmas gambol oft could cheerThe poor man's heart through half the year.
But there stands the sword of my ancestor Sir Richard Vernon, slain at Shrewsbury, and sorely slande...
Show MoreSuccess or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under ...
Show MoreIs death the last sleep? No it is the last final awakening.
I cannot tell how the truth may be I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
Welcome as the flowers in May.
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and ...
Show MoreAnd please return it. You may think this a strange request, but I find that although my friends are ...
Show MoreO, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
Oh, many a shaft at random sentFinds mark the archer little meant!And many a word at random spokenMa...
Show MoreTeach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues he...
Show MoreTo all to each a fair good night And pleasing dreams and slumbers light.
Her blue eyes sought the west afar For lovers love the western star.
Everything is possible for him who possesses courage and activity,'' she said, with a look resemblin...
Show MoreFaces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselv...
Show MoreLook back, and smile on perils past.
O Caledonia! stern and wild Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood Lan...
Show MoreAnd love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual he...
Show MoreLove rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, ...
Show MoreCutting honest throats by whispers.
The sickening pang of hope deferr'd.
I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied...
Show MorePatriotismBreathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, 'This is my own,...
Show MoreOne crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on ...
Show MoreTo all to each a fair goodnight And pleasing dreams and slumbers light.
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some kno...
Show MoreAll men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
Perhaps the perusal of such works may, without injustice, be compared with the use of opiates, banef...
Show MoreOne hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth wh...
Show MoreThose who remarked in the countenance of this young hero a dissolute audacity mingled with extreme h...
Show MoreI will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
Of this fickle temper he gave a memorable example in Ireland, when sent thither by his father, Henry...
Show More…having once seen him put forth his strength in battle, methinks I could know him again among a thou...
Show MoreRevenge is a feast for thegods!
…having once seen him put forth his strength in battle, methinks I could know him again among a thou...
Show MoreThou hast had thty day, old dame, but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an ...
Show MoreMeantime the clang of the bows and the shouts of the combatants mixed fearfully with the sound of th...
Show MoreWe are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon
I pretend not to be a champion of that same naked virtue called truth, to the very outrance. I can c...
Show MoreOh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.
I did not myself set a high estimation on wealth, and had the affectation of most young men of livel...
Show MoreIn the wide pile, by others heeded not,Hers was one sacred solitary spot,Whose gloomy aisles and ben...
Show MoreWounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.
No word of commiseration can make a burden feel one feather's weight lighter to the slave who must c...
Show MoreHe seems, in manner and rank, above the class of young men who take that turn; but I remember hearin...
Show MoreCraigengelt, you are either an honest fellow in right good earnest, and I scarce know how to believe...
Show MoreLook back, and smile on perils past!
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
My hope, my heaven, my trust must be,My gentle guide, in following thee.
so wondrous wild, the whole might seemthe scenery of a fairy dream
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native ...
Show MoreThe wretch, concentred all in self,Living, shall forfeit fair renown,And, doubly dying, shall go dow...
Show MoreColonel Talbot? he is a very disagreeable person, to be sure. He looks as if he thought no Scottish ...
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