Quotes by Walter Scott

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

Walter Scott

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

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

Walter Scott

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

Walter Scott

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

Walter Scott

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

Walter Scott

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

Walter Scott

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

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Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

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To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

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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

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

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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

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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!

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And please return it. You may think this a strange request, but I find that although my friends are poor arithmeticians, they are nearly all of them good bookkeepers.

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Perhaps the perusal of such works may, without injustice, be compared with the use of opiates, baneful, when habitually and constantly resorted to, but of most blessed power in those moments of pain and of langour, when the whole head is sore, and th...

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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.

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Oh, 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 Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.

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

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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 the...

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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