Walter Scott > Quotes

“Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.”
― Walter Scott, The Heart of Mid-Lothian

“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”
― Sir Walter Scott

“Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.”
― Walter Scott, Marmion

“Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love. ”
― Sir Walter Scott

“For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.”
― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

“Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.”
― Sir Walter Scott

“The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.”
― Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel

“Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.”
― Walter Scott

“Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.”
― Walter Scott

“Each age has deemed the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer.”
― Sir Walter Scott

“We are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon”
― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

“I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom," he said to himself, "but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.”
― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

“Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!”
― Walter Scott

“Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.”
― Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

“I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice”
― Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

“Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!”
― Walter Scott, Marmion

“The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?”
― Sir Walter Scott

“Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.”
― Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

“I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time?”
― Walter Scott

“Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.”
― Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel

“Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!”
― Sir Walter Scott

“I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!”
― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

“A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.”
― Sir Walter Scott

“Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.”
― Walter Scott, Rob Roy

“One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name”
― Walter Scott

“One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honour or observation.”
― Sir Walter Scott

“Heap on more wood! - the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.”
― Sir Walter Scott

“We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.”
― Sir Walter Scott

“Love will subsist on wonderfully little hope but not altogether without it.”
― Sir Walter Scott

“It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.”
― Walter Scott