Walter Scott Quotes
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I was not always a man of woe.
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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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When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
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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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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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There's a gude time coming.
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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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Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth,When thought is speech, and speech is truth.
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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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Respect was mingled with surprise,And the stern joy which warriors feelIn foeman worthy of their steel.
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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 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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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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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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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Come as the winds come, whenForests are rended,Come as the waves come, whenNavies are stranded.
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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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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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November’s sky is chill and drear,November’s leaf is red and sear.
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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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But woe awaits a country whenShe sees the tears of bearded men.
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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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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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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.