Walter Scott Quotes
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Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth,When thought is speech, and speech is truth.
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A light on Marmion’s visage spread,And fired his glazing eye:With dying hand, above his head,He shook the fragment of his blade,And shouted 'Victory!-Charge, Chester, charge! On, Stanley, on!'Were the last words of Marmion.
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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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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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O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
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Ah! County Guy, the hour is nigh,The sun has left the lea.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like goodly vessels driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and so perish.
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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.
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November’s sky is chill and drear,November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Come as the winds come, whenForests are rended,Come as the waves come, whenNavies are stranded.
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There's a gude time coming.
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Who o'er the herd would wish to reign,Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain!Vain as the leaf upon the stream,And fickle as a changeful dream;Fantastic as a woman's mood,And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood.Thou many-headed monster thing,Oh who would wish to be thy king!
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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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When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
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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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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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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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But with the morning cool reflection came.
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I cannot tell how the truth may be;I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
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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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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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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.