All Walter Scott Quotes
- From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt. Build
- Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention. Best
- In love quarrels the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault. Acknowledge
- High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse; Fear, for their scourge, means villains have, Thou art the torturer of… Art
- 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 them… Arm
- Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace. Bright
- We do that in our zeal our calmer moment would be afraid to answer. Afraid
- Look back, and smile on perils past. Look
- O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive! Deceit
- For success, attitude is equally as important as ability. Ability
- He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. Ability
- We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt. Build
- Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. Attitude
- Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. Children
- Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. Age
- Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest. Charmed
- Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake. Cottage
- All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. All
- The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have… Aid
- A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy. Argosy