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Love Quotes by Walter Scott

39 Love quotes by Walter Scott

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Love rules the battlefield, the garden, and even the heavens, according to Walter Scott. He compares love to a willow that bends in storms, showing that flexibility can win. He also ties love to brave knights and loyal ladies, suggesting love gives courage and comfort.

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The sickening pang of hope deferr'd.

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Time rolls his ceaseless course.

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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.

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For love is heaven and heaven is love.

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Ambition is no cure for love!

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For Love will still be lord of all.

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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

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As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.

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For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of Lochinvar.

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From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.

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

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“Alas! how many ways does woman’s affection find to work out her own misery!”

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Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference.

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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon

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So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like young Lochinvar.

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

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A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves…

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The rose is fairest when 't is budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. The rose is sweetest…

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To every lovely lady bright, I wish a gallant faithful knight; To every faithful lover, too, I wish a trusting lady true.

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True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes…

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True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven. It is the secret sympathy, The silver link,…

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“Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is…

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“...[T]hou knowest not the heart of woman... [N]ot in thy fiercest battles hast thou displayed more of thy vaunted courage than has…

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Love, to her ear, was but a name, Combin'd with vanity and shame; Her hopes, her fears, her joys, were all Bounded…

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Besides, Rose Bradwardine, beautiful and amiable as we have described her, had not precisely the sort of beauty or merit which captivates…

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In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In…

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I did not myself set a high estimation on wealth, and had the affectation of most young men of lively imagination, who…

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“A moment of peril is often also a moment of open-hearted kindness and affection. We are thrown off our guard by the…

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“Albert Graeme It was an English ladye bright, (The sun shines fair on Carlisle wall) And she would marry a Scottish knight,…

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Art thou a friend to Roderick?

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And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.

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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

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Her blue eyes sought the west afar, For lovers love the western star.

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A few drops sprinkled on the torch of love make the flame blaze the brighter.

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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

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In love quarrels the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault.

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He turn'd his charger as he spake, Upon the river shore, He gave his bridle reins a shake, Said, "Adieu for evermore,…

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'Tis an old tale, and often told; But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in story old, Of…

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“the wife who could be contented with but one half of her husband’s affections, had never deserved to engage the slightest share…

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“Of all the train, none escaped except Wamba, who showed upon the occasion much more courage than those who pretended to greater sense.”

Where shall the lover rest, Whom the fates sever From his true maiden's breast, Parted for ever? Where, through groves deep and high, Sounds…

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound…

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

Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?

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…

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

“but he had only received that sort of answer usually given by those who are more obstinate in following their own course, than strong…

“Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love. ”

Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.

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

In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances…

Honour is a homicide and a bloodspiller, that gangs about making frays in the street; but Credit is a decent honest man, that sits…

“The lovers of the chase say that the hare feels more agony during the pursuit of the greyhounds, than when she is struggling in…

I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.