Our Friends Sir Walter Scott Quotes
|
|
~ Sir Walter Scott Quote
He makes a great row but does nothing.
~ Sir Walter Scott Quote
Haste, holy Friar, Haste, ere the sinner shall expire! Of all his guilt let him be shriven, And smooth his path from earth to heaven!
~ Sir Walter Scott Quote
A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.
~ Sir Walter Scott Quote
Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.
~ Sir Walter Scott Quote
Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth in them than heaven.
~ Sir Walter Scott Quote
The summer dawn's reflected hue To purple changed Lock Katrine blue, Mildly and soft the western breeze Just kiss'd the lake, just stirr'd the trees, And the pleased lake, like maiden coy, Trembled but dimpled not for joy.
~ Sir Walter Scott Quote
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 honour or observation.
~ Sir Walter Scott Quote
Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
~ Sir Walter Scott Quote
After a bad harvest sow again.
~ Sir Walter Scott Quote
Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
~ Sir Walter Scott Quote
For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.
~ Sir Walter Scott Quote
It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
~ Sir Walter Scott Quote
Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame!
~ Sir Walter Scott Quote
Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!
~ Sir Walter Scott Quote