Walter Scott famous quotes

Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
-- Walter Scott

#Blessed #Sleep #Night

come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last
-- Walter Scott

#Death #Lasts

Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
-- Walter Scott

#Silence #Tongue #Maidens

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

#Inspirational #Motivational #Attitude

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

#Inspirational #Your Side #Sides

We often praise the evening clouds, And tints so gay and bold, But seldom think upon our God, Who tinged these clouds with gold.
-- Walter Scott

#Gay #Thinking #Clouds

Look back, and smile on perils past.
-- Walter Scott

#Smile #Past #Looks

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

#Ladders #Firsts #Climbs

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

#Men #Land #Soul

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
-- Walter Scott

#Courage #Impossible

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
-- Walter Scott

#Mind #Desire #Awake

Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it's room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
-- Walter Scott

#Horse #Men #Rooms

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

#Energy #Purpose #Wonderful

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

#Eye #Fighting #Men

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

#Goodnight #Good Night #Dream

Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
-- Walter Scott

#Hope #Dawn

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?
-- Walter Scott

#Dog #Sorry #Years

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
-- Walter Scott

#New Year #Cheer #Holiday

We are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon
-- Walter Scott

#Herbs

Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
-- Walter Scott

#Stupid #Believe #Age

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

#Wise #Men #Blessing

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.
-- Walter Scott

#Names #Tyrants #Nurse

For love is heaven and heaven is love.
-- Walter Scott

#Inspirational Love #Love Is #Heaven

God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.
-- Walter Scott

#Education #Teaching #Forgive Me

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
-- Walter Scott

#Success #Attitude #Important

Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
-- Walter Scott

#Cat #Mysterious #Kind

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

#Dog #Short Life #Compassion

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
-- Walter Scott

#Wisdom #Truth #Hype

Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
-- Walter Scott

#Glasses #Credit #May

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

#Heart #Tears #My Heart

When true friends meet in adverse hour; 'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
-- Walter Scott

#Friendship #True Friend #Clouds

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
-- Walter Scott

#Love #Best Friend #Men

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.
-- Walter Scott

#Life #Power #Men

If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life - if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.
-- Walter Scott

#Life #Gratitude #Moving

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

#Leadership #Educational #School

Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
-- Walter Scott

#Cat #Mind #Mysterious

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

#Wisdom #Children #Grace

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.
-- Walter Scott

#Dog #Toil #Deceit

Nothing is more the child of art than a garden.
-- Walter Scott

#Art #Children #Garden

Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
-- Walter Scott

#Real #Danger #Valor

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
-- Walter Scott

#Responsibility #Snow

A thousand fearful images and dire suggestions glance along the mind when it is moody and discontented with itself. Command them to stand and show themselves, and you presently assert the power of reason over imagination.
-- Walter Scott

#Halloween #Imagination #Mind

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

#Revenge #Mouths #Hell

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
-- Walter Scott

#Character #Self #Excellence

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

#Christmas #Wind #Woods

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 honor or observation.
-- Walter Scott

#Mean #Men #Years

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

#Death #Sleep #Loss

If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
-- Walter Scott

#Inspiration #Actors #Barns

A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.
-- Walter Scott

#Christmas #Cheer #Heart

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name
-- Walter Scott

#Birthday #Names #Dancing

November's sky is chill and drear, November's leaf is red and sear.
-- Walter Scott

#Sky #Red #November

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

#Law #Broken

Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.
-- Walter Scott

#Truth #Boys #Age

I did not myself set a high estimation on wealth, and had the affectation of most young men of lively imagination, who suppose that they can better dispense with the possession of money, than resign their time and faculties to the labour necessary to acquire it.
-- Walter Scott

#Men #Imagination #Wealth

Now, it is well known, that a man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach either of real good breeding or of good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute point of fashionable etiquette.
-- Walter Scott

#Real #Men #Ignorant

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.
-- Walter Scott

#Fear #Mind #Noble

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

#Country #Men #Tears

In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flag, but adversity is to me at least a tonic and bracer.
-- Walter Scott

#Adversity #Fancy #Flags

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

#Summer #Queens #Grace

For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.
-- Walter Scott

#Royalty #Vain #Sigh

Where, where was Roderick then? One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men.
-- Walter Scott

#Men #Horns #Blast

Good even, good fair moon, good even to thee. I prithee, dear moon, now show to me the form and the features, the speech and degree, of the man that true lover of mine shall be.
-- Walter Scott

#Moon #Men #Speech

Oh, poverty parts good company.
-- Walter Scott

#Poverty #Good Company #Company

Spur not an unbroken horse; put not your plowshare too deep into new land.
-- Walter Scott

#Horse #Land #Spurs

England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. 'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.
-- Walter Scott

#Christmas #Sports #Cheer

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
-- Walter Scott

#Kings #Wine #People

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

#Sun #Empires #Possession

All live by seeming. The beggar begs with it, and the gay courtier Gains land and title, rank and rule, by seeming; The clergy scorn it not, and the bold soldier Will eke with it his service.--All admit it, All practise it; and he who is content With showing what he is, shall have small credit In church, or camp, or state.--So wags the world.
-- Walter Scott

#Gay #Land #Hypocrisy

I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
-- Walter Scott

#Fighting #World #Way

A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
-- Walter Scott

#Vanity #And Love #Philanthropy

I was not always a man of woe.
-- Walter Scott

#Men #Woe

Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like goodly vessels driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and so perish.
-- Walter Scott

#Storm #Driving #Blind

The tear, down childhood's cheek that flows, Is like the dewdrop on the rose; When next the summer breeze comes by And waves the bush, the flower is dry.
-- Walter Scott

#Summer #Flower #Rose

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.
-- Walter Scott

#Religious #Lying #Men

Besides, Rose Bradwardine, beautiful and amiable as we have described her, had not precisely the sort of beauty or merit which captivates a romantic imagination in early youth. She was too frank, too confiding, too kind; amiable qualities, undoubtedly, but destructive of the marvellous, with which a youth of imagination delights to dress the empress of his affections.
-- Walter Scott

#Beautiful #Imagination #Rose

Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides.
-- Walter Scott

#Selfishness #Causes #World

Methinks I will not die quite happy without having seen something of that Rome of which I have read so much.
-- Walter Scott

#Rome

True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.
-- Walter Scott

#Men #Heaven #Given

Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
-- Walter Scott

#Littles #Madness #Talent

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

#Eyelashes #Long #Important

"Charge, Chester, charge! on, Stanley, on!" Were the last words of Marmion.
-- Walter Scott

#Lasts #Last Words #Stanley

There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.
-- Walter Scott

#Southern #Fine #Parsnips

The race of humankind would perish did they cease to aid each other.
-- Walter Scott

#Race #Helping #Aids

Call it not vain: they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies.
-- Walter Scott

#Nature #Poet #Celebrate

Woman's faith and woman's trust, Write the characters in dust.
-- Walter Scott

#Faith #Character #Writing

And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
-- Walter Scott

#Doubt #Born #Scorn

Welcome as the flowers in May.
-- Walter Scott

#Thank You #Flower #May

Like the dew on the mountain, like the foam on the river, like the bubble on the fountain, thou art gone, and for ever!
-- Walter Scott

#Death #Art #Rivers

Ambition is no cure for love!
-- Walter Scott

#Ambition #Cures

We do that in our zeal our calmer moment would be afraid to answer.
-- Walter Scott

#Would Be #Answers #Moments

Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
-- Walter Scott

#Work #Eye #Grace

Loud o'er my head though awful thunders roll, And vivid lightnings flash from pole to pole, Yet 'tis Thy voice, my God, that bids them fly, Thy arm directs those lightnings through the sky. Then let the good Thy mighty name revere, And hardened sinners Thy just vengeance fear.
-- Walter Scott

#Sky #Names #Voice

Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins, Pity and woe! for such a mind Is soft contemplative, and kind.
-- Walter Scott

#Winning #Hands #Mind

As system virtualization becomes mainstream, IT managers will find a greater need for disk imaging for disaster recovery and systems deployment,.
-- Walter Scott

#Recovery #Deployment #Needs

Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
-- Walter Scott

#Spring #Causes #Fierce

Still are the thoughts to memory dear.
-- Walter Scott

#Memories #Dear #Dear Me

Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
-- Walter Scott

#Caring #Worry #Way

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

#Dark #Men #Heaven

Look at a gown of gold, and you will at least get a sleeve of it.
-- Walter Scott

#Gold #Looks #Gowns

Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
-- Walter Scott

#Sleep #Joy