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Walter Scott Quotes

Walter Scott quotes

Scottish Novelist, Writer, Poet August 14, 1771 – September 21, 1832

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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty. Walter Scott
Walter Scott quote: "One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once..."
One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior. Walter Scott
Walter Scott quote: "Each age has deemed the new-born year. The fittest time for..."
Each age has deemed the new-born year. The fittest time for festal cheer. Walter Scott
Walter Scott quote: "Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to..."
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. Walter Scott
It has often been remarked of the Scottish character, that the stubbornness with which it is moulded shows most to advantage in adversity, when it seems akin to the native sycamore of their hills, which scorns to be biassed in its mode of growth even by the influence of the prevailing wind, but, shooting its branches with equal boldness in every direction, shows no weather-side to the storm, and may be broken, but can never be bended. Walter Scott
Walter Scott quote: "Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening."
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening. Walter Scott
In the wide pile, by others heeded not, Hers was one sacred solitary spot, Whose gloomy aisles and bending shelves contain. For moral hunger food, and cures for moral pain. Walter Scott
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. Walter Scott
Walter Scott quote: "Cats are a mysterious kind of folk."
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. Walter Scott
Walter Scott quote: "Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly..."
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. Walter Scott
It is from the well of St. Dunstan' said he, 'In which betwixt sun and sun, he baptised five hundred heathen Danes and Britons - blessed be his name!' And applying his black beard to the pitcher, he took a draught much more moderate in quantity than his encomium seemed to warrant. Walter Scott
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it. Walter Scott
Walter Scott quote: "come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last"
come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last Walter Scott
O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken! Walter Scott
The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me? Walter Scott

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