Sir Walter Scott Quotes

Most popular Sir Walter Scott Quotes

As old as the hills. - Sir Walter Scott quote.
As old as the hills.
— Sir Walter Scott

old age

Too much rest is rust. - Sir Walter Scott quote.
Too much rest is rust.
— Sir Walter Scott
The reason of the law is the law. - Sir Walter Scott quote.
The reason of the law is the law.
— Sir Walter Scott
Time will rust the sharpest sword. - Sir Walter Scott quote.
Time will rust the sharpest sword.
— Sir Walter Scott
Labor — all labor is noble and holy. - Sir Walter Scott quote.
Labor — all labor is noble and holy.
— Sir Walter Scott
Look back, and smile at perils past. - Sir Walter Scott quote.
Look back, and smile at perils past.
— Sir Walter Scott The Bridal of Trierman

perils

For love is heaven, and heaven is love. - Sir Walter Scott quote.
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
— Sir Walter Scott
I begin to find that too good a character is inconvenient. - Sir Walter Scott quote.
I begin to find that too good a character is inconvenient.
— Sir Walter Scott

character

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive! - Sir Walter Scott quote.
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
— Sir Walter Scott

lying

The grave the last sleep?  No; it is the last and final awakening. - Sir Walter Scott quote.
The grave the last sleep?  No; it is the last and final awakening.
— Sir Walter Scott Memoirs of the Life of Sir William Scott

death afterlife

Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive! - Sir Walter Scott quote.
Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive!
— Sir Walter Scott Marmion

deceit

Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges. - Sir Walter Scott quote.
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges.
— Sir Walter Scott

worry

I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me. - Sir Walter Scott quote.
I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
— Sir Walter Scott
Depend upon it, of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness. - Sir Walter Scott quote.
Depend upon it, of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
— Sir Walter Scott Memoirs of the Life of Sir William Scott

drinking vice greatness

Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, 
When thought is speech, and speech is truth. - Sir Walter Scott quote.
Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, 
When thought is speech, and speech is truth.
— Sir Walter Scott

adolescence

Ambition breaks through the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude. - Sir Walter Scott quote.
Ambition breaks through the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
— Sir Walter Scott Tales of a Grandfather: Being Stories Taken from Scottish History

ambition

This world is a dream within a dream; and as we grow older, each step is an awakening. - Sir Walter Scott quote.
This world is a dream within a dream; and as we grow older, each step is an awakening.
— Sir Walter Scott
When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone. - Sir Walter Scott quote.
When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.
— Sir Walter Scott
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. - Sir Walter Scott quote.
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
— Sir Walter Scott

business

For ne'er
Was flattery lost on poet's ear:
A simple race!
They waste their toil
For the vain tribute of a smile. - Sir Walter Scott quote.
For ne'er
Was flattery lost on poet's ear:
A simple race!
They waste their toil
For the vain tribute of a smile.
— Sir Walter Scott Lay of the Last Minstrel

poets flattery

From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow, and weep to see them melt. - Sir Walter Scott quote.
From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow, and weep to see them melt.
— Sir Walter Scott
In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flag, but adversity is to me at least a tonic and a bracer. - Sir Walter Scott quote.
In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flag, but adversity is to me at least a tonic and a bracer.
— Sir Walter Scott Memoirs of the Life of Walter Scott

adversity

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 heart that's broken. - Sir Walter Scott quote.
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 heart that's broken.
— Sir Walter Scott The Lord of the Isles

heart words

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 paltry decorum. - Sir Walter Scott quote.
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 paltry decorum.
— Sir Walter Scott
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested them with a nature noble and incapable of deceit. - Sir Walter Scott quote.
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested them with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
— Sir Walter Scott
True love's the gift which God has given; To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire,: Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly; It liveth not in fierce desire. - Sir Walter Scott quote.
True love's the gift which God has given; To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire,: Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly; It liveth not in fierce desire.
— Sir Walter Scott
We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt. - Sir Walter Scott quote.
We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
— Sir Walter Scott

charity

This was really a compliment to be pleased with—a nice little handsome pat of butter made up by a neat-handed...dairy-maid instead of the grease fit only for cartwheels which one is dosed with by the pound. - Sir Walter Scott quote.
This was really a compliment to be pleased with—a nice little handsome pat of butter made up by a neat-handed...dairy-maid instead of the grease fit only for cartwheels which one is dosed with by the pound.
— Sir Walter Scott

compliments

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 paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh without either honor or observation.
— Sir Walter Scott Tales of My Landlord

risk-taking