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

Walter Scott

My hope, my heaven, my trust must be, My gentle guide, in following thee.

Walter Scott

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, undoubtedl...

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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.

Walter Scott

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

Walter Scott

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 hono...

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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.

Walter Scott

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

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

Walter Scott

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

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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.

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

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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.

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

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There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

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

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Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

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

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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!

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

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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.

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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