All Walter Scott Quotes
- Hail to the chief in triumph advances. Advances
- War is the only game in which both sides lose. Both
- Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of… Ambition
- Nothing is more the child of art than a garden. Art
- Those who follow the banners oreason are like the well-disciplined battalions which, wearing a more sober uniform and making a less dazzling show than the… Banner
- Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it. Confront
- Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile. Ear
- For love is heaven and heaven is love. Heaven
- Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of. Aware
- God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being. Education
- I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me. Cannot Tell
- Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Dream of battled fields no more. Days of danger, nights of waking. Battled
- Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er. Memorial
- Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags. Clad
- A mother's pride, a father's joy. Father
- I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd. Charge
- Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils. Caution
- Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences? Allowing
- Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired. Breath
- Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion. Digestion
- The summer dawn's reflected hue To purple changed Lock Katrine blue, Mildly and soft the western breeze Just kiss'd the lake, just stirr'd the trees,… Blue
- Fair play is a jewel. Fair
- 'Tis an old tale, and often told; But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in story old, Of maiden true betray'd… Agree
- Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame! All
- When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone. Alone