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Inspirational Quotes by Walter Scott
- War is the only game in which both sides lose.
- Nothing is more the child of art than a garden.
- Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
- For love is heaven and heaven is love.
- Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
- I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.
- When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.
- The will to do, the soul to dare.
- The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
- As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.
- In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand.
- Art thou a friend to Roderick?
- Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.
- But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like again?
- For Love will still be lord of all.
- For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of Lochinvar.
- Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet
- And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
- Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
- There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.
- "Charge, Chester, charge! on, Stanley, on!" Were the last words of Marmion.
- What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
- True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.
- Methinks I will not die quite happy without having seen something of that Rome of which I have read so much.
- Covetousness bursts the sack and spills the grain.
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- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento