Quotes by Walter Scott

About Walter Scott:

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet with many contemporary readers in Europe, Australia, and North America.
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Look back, and smile on perils past!

Walter Scott

Craigengelt, you are either an honest fellow in right good earnest, and I scarce know how to believe that; or you are cleverer than I took you for, and I scarce know how to believe that either.

Walter Scott

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

Walter Scott

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

Walter Scott

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

Walter Scott

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

Walter Scott

He seems, in manner and rank, above the class of young men who take that turn; but I remember hearing them say, that the little theatre at Fairport was to open with the performance of a young gentleman, being his first appearance on any stage.—If t...

Walter Scott

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

Walter Scott

We are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon

Walter Scott

Meantime the clang of the bows and the shouts of the combatants mixed fearfully with the sound of the trumpets, and drowned the groans of those who fell, and lay rolling defenceless beneath the feet of the horses. The splendid armour of the combatant...

Walter Scott

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

Walter Scott

Those who remarked in the countenance of this young hero a dissolute audacity mingled with extreme haughtiness ... could not yet deny to his countenance that sort of comeliness which belongs to an open set of features, well formed by nature, modeled ...

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Thou hast had thty day, old dame, but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an old warhorse turned out on the barren heath; thou hast had thy paces in thy time, but now a broken amble is the best of them.

Walter Scott

Revenge is a feast for the gods!

Walter Scott

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

Walter Scott

In the wide pile, by others heeded not, Hers was one sacred solitary spot, Whose gloomy aisles and bending shelves contain For moral hunger food, and cures for moral pain.

Walter Scott

No word of commiseration can make a burden feel one feather's weight lighter to the slave who must carry it.

Walter Scott

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...

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Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.

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

Author Bio

  • NameWalter Scott
  • DescriptionScottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet
  • Aliases"Waverley," "Ivanhoe," &c., Author of,; Sir Walter Scott
  • BornAugust 15, 1771
  • DiedSeptember 21, 1832
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter; Poet; Playwright; Linguist; Judge; Translator; Novelist; Musicologist