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Time rolls his ceaseless course.
— Walter Scott
Revenge is a feast for thegods! — Walter Scott
As living in this ideal world became daily more delectable to our hero, interruption was disagreeable in proportion. The
— Walter Scott
Covetousness bursts the sack and spills the grain.
— Walter Scott
Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
— Walter Scott
Mellow nuts have the hardest rind.
— Walter Scott
Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
— Walter Scott
Welcome as the flowers in May.
— Walter Scott
Lawyer's anxiety about the fate of the most interesting cause has seldom spoiled either his sleep or digestion.
— Walter Scott
It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent.
— Walter Dill Scott
We resign to civil society our natural rights of self-defence only on condition that the ordinances of law should protect us.
— Walter Scott
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
— Walter Scott
Nothing is more the child of art than a garden.
— Walter Scott
I forgive you, Sir Knight," said Rowena, "as a Christian.""That means," said Wamba, "that she does not forgive him at all. — Walter Scott
Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hoursambition is the serious business of life. — Walter Scott
Who, noteless as the race from which he sprung,Saved others' names, but left his own unsung. — Walter Scott
Ambition is no cure for love!
— Walter Scott
The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume.
— Walter Scott
Oh, poverty parts good company.
— Walter Scott
The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.
— Walter Scott
Blud's thicker than water.
— Walter Scott
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
— Walter Scott
Scott calls Bois-Guilbert "an unprincipled voluptuary," which is hard to improve on.
— Richard Armour
Hunger and fear are excellent casuists.
— Walter Scott
Some touch of Nature's genial glow.
— Walter Scott
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
— Walter Scott
Oh, Brignall banks are wild and fair, And Greta woods are green, And you may gather garlands there Would grace a summer's queen.
— Walter Scott
I was not always a man of woe.
— Walter Scott
Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!
— Walter Scott
I will not slip my dog before the game's a-foot. - But,
— Walter Scott
Art thou a friend to Roderick?
— Walter Scott
Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile.
— Walter Scott
Methinks I will not die quite happy without having seen something of that Rome of which I have read so much.
— Walter Scott
He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes.
— Walter Scott
The seat of the Celtic Muse is in the mist of the secret and solitary hill, and her voice in the murmur of the mountain stream.
— Walter Scott
A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.
— Walter Scott
Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
— Walter Scott
Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
— Walter Scott
Nothing perhaps increases by indulgence more than a desultory habit of reading, especially under such opportunities of gratifying it.
— Walter Scott
The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.
— Walter Scott
Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die.
— Walter Scott
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
— Walter Scott
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
— Walter Scott
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
— Walter Scott
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
— Walter Scott
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
— Walter Scott
I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
— Walter Scott
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
— Walter Scott
Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.
— Walter Scott
Certainly," quoth Athelstane, "women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted.
— Walter Scott
For deadly fear can time outgo, and blanch at once the hair.
— Walter Scott
Are ye come light-handed, ye son of a toom whistle?
— Walter Scott
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
— Walter Scott
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
— Walter Scott
Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel.
— Walter Scott
I am the very child of caprice and folly.
— Walter Scott
One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
— Walter Scott
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
— Walter Scott
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
— Walter Scott
The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
— Walter Scott
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
— Walter Scott
When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.
— Walter Scott
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
— Walter Scott
For Love will still be lord of all.
— Walter Scott
Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
— Walter Scott
And children know,Instinctive taught, the friend and foe. — Walter Scott
cared for no rogues but their own,
— Walter Scott
there are stratagems in law as well as war.
— Walter Scott
