Sir Walter Scott Quotes
A prolific Scottish historical novelist and poet, popular throughout Europe during his time.
(1771 - 1832)
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'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.
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A grandfather is no longer a social institution. - Men do not live in the past. - They merely look back. - Forward is the universal cry.
[Ancestry]
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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 himself an architect.
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A man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach, either of real good breeding or good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute points of fashionable etiquette.
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A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
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A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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Adversity is like the period of the former and of the latter rain, - cold, comfortless, unfriendly to man and to animal; yet from that season have their birth the flower and the fruit, the date, the rose, and the pomegranate.
[Adversity]
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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
[Adversity]
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.
[Love]
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Better that they had ne'er been born who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
[Unbelief]
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Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!
[Patriotism]
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But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like again.
[Action]
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Courtesy of temper, when it is used to veil churlishness of deed, is but a knight's girdle around the breast of a base clown.
[Temper]
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Credit is like a looking-glass, which, when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
[Credit]
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Cutting honest throats by whispers.
[Calumny]
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Death is not the last sleep. It is the final awakening.
[Death]
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Dinna curse him, sir; I have heard it said that a curse was like a stone flung up to the heavens, and most likely to return on the head of him that sent it.
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Distance in truth produces in idea the same effect as in real perspective. - Objects are softened, rounded, and rendered doubly graceful. - The harsher and more ordinary points of character are melted down, and those by which it is rememered are the more striking outlines that mark sublimity, grace, or beauty. - There are mists, too, as in the natural horizon, to conceal what is less pleasing in distant objects; and there are happy lights, to stream in full glory upon those points which can profit by brilliant illumination.
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