All Walter Scott Quotes
- Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love. Best Friend
- Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. April
- O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a… Archer
- When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone. Alone
- Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep. Asleep
- A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call… Architect
- Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness. Alcohol
- To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. All
- There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine. Doubt
- To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue. Ambition
- Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. All
- He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit. Classroom
- It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty. Assurance
- If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors. Actor
- One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of… Action
- The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when… All
- What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable… Afterwards
- Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening. Awakening
- Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion. Discretion
- Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of… Affection