Walter Scott

We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.

— Walter Scott

It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.

— Walter Scott

“Courtesy of tongue," said Rowena, "when it is used to veil churlishness of deed, is but a knight's girdle around the breast…

— Walter Scott

Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?

— Walter Scott

He hath a share of man's intelligence, but no share of man's falsehood.

— Walter Scott

“I see a hand you cannot see, Which beckons me away; I hear a voice you cannot hear, Which says I must…

— Walter Scott

O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering…

— Walter Scott

“My mind to me a kingdom is." I am rightful monarch; and, God to aid, I will not be dethroned by any…

— Walter Scott

Steady of heart and stout of hand.

— Walter Scott

“The Scotch, it is well known, are more remarkable for the exercise of their intellectual powers, than for the keenness of their…

— Walter Scott

Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.

— Walter Scott

“...he at no time thought himself out of the Black Douglas's reach, any more than the good Christian supposes himself out of…

— Walter Scott

England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. 'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'Twas Christmas told the merriest…

— Walter Scott

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

— Walter Scott

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

— Walter Scott

Call it not vain: they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates…

— Walter Scott

Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater…

— Walter Scott

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

— Walter Scott

“Here he produced two immense folded packets, which appeared each to contain a whole ream of closely written manuscript. They had been…

— Walter Scott

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

— Walter Scott

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

— Walter Scott

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

— Walter Scott

Good wine needs neither bush nor preface to make it welcome. And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd.

— Walter Scott

Here eglantine embalm'd the air, Hawthorne and hazel mingled there; The primrose pale, and violet flower, Found in each cliff a narrow…

— Walter Scott

For love is heaven and heaven is love.

— Walter Scott