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Walter Scott (Writer)

If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life - if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.
— Walter Scott life
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
— Walter Scott self
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
— Walter Scott life
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer; The poor mans heart through half the year...
— Walter Scott art
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
— Walter Scott life
Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
— Walter Scott success
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
— Walter Scott wisdom
The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
— Walter Scott life
There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
— Walter Scott religion
Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.
— Walter Scott sweet
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
— Walter Scott dreams
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
— Walter Scott nature
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
— Walter Scott possible
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
— Walter Scott loss
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
— Walter Scott snow
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 war
When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
— Walter Scott thinking
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 knowledge
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
— Walter Scott truth
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
— Walter Scott education
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
— Walter Scott time
Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
— Walter Scott escape
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
— Walter Scott right
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
— Walter Scott rain
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
— Walter Scott you
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 purpose
Look back, and smile on perils past.
— Walter Scott past
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
— Walter Scott love
Many miles away theres a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
— Walter Scott man
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
— 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 thats broken!
— Walter Scott art
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
— Walter Scott greatness
To every lovely lady bright, I wish a gallant faithful knight; To every faithful lover, too, I wish a trusting lady true.
— Walter Scott love

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