All Walter Scott Quotes
- If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life - if you cannot look back to those whom you owe… Active
- Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her light no more. Aged
- Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day. Darling
- That day of wrath, that dreadful day. When heaven and earth shall pass away. Day
- The way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old; His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seemed to have know a… Better
- Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain! Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful… Blood
- So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like young Lochinvar. Dauntless
- For Love will still be lord of all. All
- For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of Lochinvar. Dastard
- He turn'd his charger as he spake, Upon the river shore, He gave his bridle reins a shake, Said, "Adieu for evermore, my love, And… Adieu
- "Lambe them, lads! lambe them!" a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked… Astrologer
- Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven. Earth
- On his bold visage middle age Had slightly press'd its signet sage, Yet had not quench'd the open truth And fiery vehemence of youth: Forward… Age
- Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries! Awful
- In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying. Battle
- What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier? Europe
- There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial. Anything Permanently
- Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet Billet
- He hath a share of man's intelligence, but no share of man's falsehood. Dog
- The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances. Circumstances