Quotes about Walter Scott

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.

#Walter Scott

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

#Walter Scott

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many...

#Walter Scott

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

#Walter Scott

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore...

#Walter Scott

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For...

#Walter Scott

Look back, and smile on perils past.

#Walter Scott

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused...

#Walter Scott

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to...

#Walter Scott

If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it...

#Walter Scott

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps...

#Walter Scott

Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

#Walter Scott