Walter Scott Quotes (156 Quotes)

Time rolls his ceaseless course.

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.

I cannot tell how the truth may be I say the tale as twas said to me.

O fading honours of the dead O high ambition, lowly laid.

I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.

My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.

Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.

There is a southern proverb fine words butter no parsnips.

Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin.

The rose is fairest when 't is budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew, And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.

Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her light no more.

Ridicule, the weapon of all others most feared by enthusiasts of every description, and which from its predominance over such minds, often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

When, musing on companions gone, We doubly feel ourselves alone.

What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.

Art thou a friend to Roderick.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.

Good wine needs neither bush nor preface To make it welcome.

Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.

O woman in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou.

Hail to the chief who in triumph advances.

The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.

The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.

So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like young Lochinvar.

Along thy wild and willow'd shore.

There 's a gude time coming.

Ah, County Guy, the hour is nigh, The sun has left the lea. The orange flower perfumes the bower, The breeze is on the sea.

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

Her blue eyes sought the west afar, For lovers love the western star.

But patience, cousin, and shuffle the cards Till our hand is a stronger one.

If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

Novembers sky is chill and drear, Novembers leaf is red and sear.

In man's most dark extremity Oft succour dawns from Heaven.

Oh, Brignall banks are wild and fair, And Greta woods are green, And you may gather garlands there Would grace a summer's queen.

But woe awaits a country when She sees the tears of bearded men.

No pale gradations quench his ray, No twilight dews his wrath allay.

Where 's the coward that would not dare To fight for such a land.

To every lovely lady bright, I wish a gallant faithful knight To every faithful lover, too, I wish a trusting lady true.

Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.

Is death the last step No, it is the final awakening.

True love 's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes soon as granted fly It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart and mind to mind In body and in soul can bind.

Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.