31 Quotes by Walter Scott
- There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
- O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
- O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
- Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
- Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
- To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
- The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
- 'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.
- Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
- Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
- Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
- Look back, and smile on perils past.
- It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
- If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
- If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
- He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
- To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
- For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
- Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
- Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
- All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
- A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
- 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.
- He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
- Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
- We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
- What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
- What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
- When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
- To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
- Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
Privacy policy
