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Walter Scott
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“Where lives the man that has not tried, How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!”
Walter Scott (1771–1832) first seen 1813 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Bridal of Triermain (1813), canto i. Stanza 21.
Also quoted by: Sir Walter Scott
“But mankind—the race would perish did they cease to aid each other.—From the time that the mother binds the child's head, till the moment that some kind assistant wipes the death-damp from the brow of the dying, we cannot exist without mutual help. All, therefore, that need aid, have the right to ask it of their fellow-mortals; no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.”
Walter Scott (1771–1832) first seen 1816 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Black Dwarf (1816), Ch. 17.
“Come as the winds come, when Forests are rended, Come as the waves come, when Navies are stranded.”
Walter Scott (1771–1832) first seen 1816 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pibroch of Donald Dhu (1816), St. 4.
Also quoted by: Sir Walter Scott
“War's a fearsome thing. They'll be cunning that catches me at this wark again.”
Walter Scott (1771–1832) first seen 1816 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Old Mortality, Volume II (1816), Chapter XI.
“Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.”
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Recorded in: Old Mortality, Volume II (1816), Chapter XIII.
Also quoted by: Sir Walter Scott
“Time will rust the sharpest sword, Time will consume the strongest cord; That which molders hemp and steel, Mortal arm and nerve must feel.”
Walter Scott (1771–1832) first seen 1817 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Harold the Dauntless (1817), Canto I, st. 4.
“Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die.”
Walter Scott (1771–1832) first seen 1819 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Bride of Lammermoor (1819), Ch. 3 - Lucy Ashton's Song.
“The Sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.”
Walter Scott (1771–1832) first seen 1827 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Life of Napoleon (1827); see Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Also quoted by: Sir Walter Scott
“Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.”
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Recorded in: Life of Napoleon (1827).
Also quoted by: Sir Walter Scott
“There is a southern proverb—fine words butter no parsnips.”
Walter Scott (1771–1832) first seen 1819 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Legend of Montrose (1819), Ch. 3.
“Oh, poverty parts good company.”
Walter Scott (1771–1832) first seen 1820 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Abbot (1820), Ch. 7.
“Fat, fair, and forty.”
Walter Scott (1771–1832) first seen 1824 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: St. Ronan's Well (1824), Ch. 7.
Also quoted by: Sir Walter Scott
“Too much rest is rust.”
Walter Scott (1771–1832) first seen 1825 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Betrothed (1825), Heading, Ch. 13
“Widowed wife and wedded maid.”
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Also quoted by: Sir Walter Scott
“Woman's faith and woman's trust, Write the characters in dust.”
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Also quoted by: Sir Walter Scott
“A miss is as good as a mile.”
Walter Scott (1771–1832) first seen 1825 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Journal (December 3, 1825).
Also quoted by: English proverb (english)
“Ride on prosperously — do not stop — do not call a halt — do not quit the saddle — pursue the scattered fliers — sound the trumpet — not a levant or a flourish, but a point of war — sound, boot and saddle — to horse and away — a charge!”
Walter Scott (1771–1832) first seen 1826 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Woodstock (1826), Ch. 1.
“If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.”
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Recorded in: Woodstock (1826), Ch. 28.
“What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?”
Walter Scott (1771–1832) first seen 1826 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Woodstock (1826), Ch. 37.
Also quoted by: Sir Walter Scott
“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 (1771–1832) first seen 1828 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Fair Maid of Perth (1828), Introductory
“Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it's room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!”
Walter Scott (1771–1832) first seen 1830 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Doom of Devorgoil, Bonny Dundee (1830), Chorus.
“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”
Walter Scott (1771–1832) first seen 1830 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to J. G. Lockhart (c. 16 June 1830), in H. J. C. Grierson (ed.), Letters of Sir Walter Scott, Vol. II (1936), as reported in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1999), p. 652
“Heaven knows its time; the bullet has its billet.”
Walter Scott (1771–1832) first seen 1832 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Count Robert of Paris (1832), Heading, Ch. 25.
“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.”
Walter Scott (1771–1832) first seen 1832 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Countess Brenhilda in Count Robert of Paris (1832), Ch. 25.
“Thy hue, dear pledge, is pure and bright As in that well-remember'd night When first thy mystic braid was wove, And first my Agnes whisper'd love.”
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“My dear, be a good man—be virtuous—be religious—be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here. ...God bless you all.”
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Recorded in: Last words, as quoted in John Gibson Lockhart Memoirs of the life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Vol. VII (1838), p. 294
“The way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old; His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seemed to have known a better day.”
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“Such is the custom of Branksome Hall.”
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Also quoted by: Sir Walter Scott
“Steady of heart, and stout of hand.”
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“If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight.”
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Also quoted by: Sir Walter Scott
“O fading honours of the dead! O high ambition, lowly laid!”
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Also quoted by: Sir Walter Scott
“I was not always a man of woe.”
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Also quoted by: Sir Walter Scott
“I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me.”
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“In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances on the green. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above; For love is heaven, and heaven is love.”
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Also quoted by: Sir Walter Scott
“Her blue eyes sought the west afar, For lovers love the western star.”
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Also quoted by: Sir Walter Scott
“Along thy wild and willow'd shore.”
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Also quoted by: Sir Walter Scott
“For ne'er Was flattery lost on poet's ear: A simple race! they waste their toil For the vain tribute of a smile.”
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“Call it not vain;—they do not err, Who say, that when the Poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies.”
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Also quoted by: Sir Walter Scott
“True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind In body and in soul can bind.”
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Also quoted by: Sir Walter Scott
“Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd, From wandering on a foreign strand! If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no Minstrel raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim; Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonor'd, and unsung.”
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“O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood!”
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Also quoted by: Sir Walter Scott
“That day of wrath, that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinner's stay? How shall he meet that dreadful day?”
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“Stood for his country’s glory fast, And nail’d her colours to the mast!”
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“Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.”
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Also quoted by: Sir Walter Scott
“When, musing on companions gone, We doubly feel ourselves alone.”
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Also quoted by: Sir Walter Scott
“When Prussia hurried to the field, And snatch'd the spear, but left the shield.”
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Also quoted by: Sir Walter Scott
“Oh, young Lochinvar is come out of the West, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best.”
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“And darest thou then To beard the lion in his den, The Douglas in his hall?”
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“O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!”
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“O, Woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!”
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Also quoted by: Sir Walter Scott