Walter Scott Quotes

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.

Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.

I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.

I pretend not to be a champion of that same naked virtue called truth, to the very outrance. I can consent that her charms be hidden with a veil, were it but for decency's sake.

Breathes there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said This is my own my native land!

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

The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.

To all to each a fair goodnight And pleasing dreams and slumbers light.

Colonel Talbot? he is a very disagreeable person, to be sure. He looks as if he thought no Scottish woman worth the trouble of handing her a cup of tea.

It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Is death the last sleep? No it is the last final awakening.