Walter Scott Quotes
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Time rolls his ceaseless course.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.
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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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O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
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What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?
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You have power, rank, command, influence; we have wealth, the source both of our strength and weakness; the value of these toys, ten times multiplied, would not influence half so much as your slightest wish.
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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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Like the dew on the mountain,Like the foam on the river,Like the bubble on the fountain,Thou art gone, and forever!
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Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won!
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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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When Israel, of the Lord belov'd,Out of the land of bondage came,Her fathers' God before her mov'd,An awful guide in smoke and flame.
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Respect was mingled with surprise,And the stern joy which warriors feelIn foeman worthy of their steel.
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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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Within that awful volume liesThe mystery, of mysteries!
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Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide,And folly into sin!
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There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
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On his bold visage middle ageHad slightly pressed its signet sage,Yet had not quenched the open truthAnd fiery vehemence of youth;Forward and frolic glee was there,The will to do, the soul to dare,The sparkling glance, soon blown to fire,Of hasty love or headlong ire.
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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
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Come as the winds come, whenForests are rended,Come as the waves come, whenNavies are stranded.
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When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.