Walter Scott Quotes
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Methinks I will not die quite happy without having seen something of that Rome of which I have read so much.
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Look not thou on beauty's charming; Sit thou still when kings are arming; Taste not when the wine-cup glistens; Speak not when the people listens
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Spur not an unbroken horse; put not your plowshare too deep into new land.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
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Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries!
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My dear, be a good man be virtuous be religious be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here. ...God bless you all.
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Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Dream of battled fields no more. Days of danger, nights of waking.
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Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame!
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Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye 're sleeping.
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When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.
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Certainly," quoth Athelstane, "women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted.
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He that follows the advice of reason has a mind that is elevated above the reach of injury; that sits above the clouds, in a calm and quiet ether, and with a brave indifferency hears the rolling thunders grumble and burst under his feet.
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Love, to her ear, was but a name, Combin'd with vanity and shame; Her hopes, her fears, her joys, were all Bounded within the cloister wall.
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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.
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Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade.
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Give me an honest laugher.
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Stood for his country's glory fast, And nailed her colors to the mast!
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The will to do, the soul to dare..
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Warriors! and where are warriors found, If not on martial Britain's ground? And who, when waked with note of fire, Love more than they the British lyre?
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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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As hope and fear alternate chase Our course through life's uncertain race.
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Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendor, can never confer real happiness; the evil consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the steps of the malefactor; while the paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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I'll dream no more--by mainly mind Not even in sleep is well resigned. My midnight orisons said o'er, I'll turn to rest and dream no more.
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Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.
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