All Walter Scott Quotes
- Love will subsist on wonderfully little hope but not altogether without it. Altogether
- Heap on more wood! - the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still. Chill
- We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared… Calling
- A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year. Cheer
- One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name Age
- come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last Death
- Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and… Appointed
- One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior. Behavior
- Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never. Broken
- The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what… Died
- Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. Cat
- Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed! Age
- I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom," he said to himself, "but I wish any wise man would teach me what use… Any
- In the name of God!" said Gurth, "how came they prisoners? and to whom?" "Our master was too ready to fight," said the Jester, "and… All
- 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… Actual
- Certainly," quoth Athelstane, "women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted. All
- For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the… Deserve
- We are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon Flourisheth
- 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… Behold
- Thou hast had thty day, old dame, but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an old warhorse turned… Amble