Walter Scott Quotes
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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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Within that awful volume liesThe mystery, of mysteries!
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Such is the custom of Branksome Hall.
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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There's a gude time coming.
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But woe awaits a country whenShe sees the tears of bearded men.
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He’s expected at noon, and no wight till he comesMay profane the great chair, or the porridge of plums;For the best of the cheer, and the seat by the fire,Is the undenied right of the Barefooted Friar.
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Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be ay sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye're sleeping.
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For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.
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There is yet spirit in him, were it well directed- but, like the Greek fire, it burns whatever approaches 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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Come as the winds come, whenForests are rended,Come as the waves come, whenNavies are stranded.
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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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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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So shall he strive, in changeful hue,Field, feast, and combat, to renew,And loves, and arms, and harpers' glee,And all the pomp of chivalry.
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Where, where was Roderick then!One blast upon his bugle-hornWere worth a thousand men.
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'Lambe them, lads! lambe them!' a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked on the head by the rabble in Charles the First's time.
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Pax vobiscum will answer all queries. If you go or come, eat or drink, bless or ban, Pax vobiscum carries you through it all. It is as useful to a friar as a broom-stick to a witch, or a wand to a conjuror.
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And ne'er did Grecian chisel traceA Nymph, a Naiad, or a GraceOf finer form or lovelier face.
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Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth,When thought is speech, and speech is truth.
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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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If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.
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Oh, young Lochinvar is come out of the West,Through all the wide Border his steed was the best.
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He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.