Walter Scott Quotes
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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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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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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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Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
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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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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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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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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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Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won!
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O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
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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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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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What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?
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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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The wind breath'd soft as lover's sigh,And, oft renew'd, seem'd oft to die, With breathless pause between,O who, with speech of war and woes,Would wish to break the soft repose Of such enchanting scene!
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Come as the winds come, whenForests are rended,Come as the waves come, whenNavies are stranded.
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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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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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Thus aged men, full loth and slow,The vanities of life forego,And count their youthful follies o'er,Till Memory lends her light no more.
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But woe awaits a country whenShe sees the tears of bearded men.
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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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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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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.