Walter Scott Quotes
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.
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The stag at eve had drunk his fill,Where danced the moon on Monan's rill,And deep his midnight lair had madeIn lone Glenartney's hazel shade.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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'Alas! fair Rowena,' returned De Bracy, 'you are in presence of your captive, not your jailor; and it is from your fair eyes that De Bracy must receive that doom which you fondly expect from him.'
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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
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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 I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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With head upraised, and look intent,And eye and ear attentive bent,And locks flung back, and lips apart,Like monument of Grecian art,In listening mood, she seemed to stand,The guardian Naiad of the strand.
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Widowed wife and wedded maid.
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Oh, poverty parts good company.
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To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
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Lightly from fair to fair he flew,And loved to plead, lament, and sue;Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain,For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
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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 to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
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In the lost battle,Borne down by the flying,Where mingles war's rattleWith groans of the dying.
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Rouse the lion from his lair.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Pride and jealousy there was in his eye, for his life had been spent in asserting rights which were constantly liable to invasion; and the prompt, fiery, and resolute disposition of the man, had been kept constantly upon the alert by the circumstances of his situation.
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So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war,There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.