WALTER SCOTT, IN FULL SIR WALTER SCOTT, 1ST BARONET (1771 –1832) WAS A LEADING SCOTTISH NOVELIST, POET, AND CRITIC.
“For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.”
~ Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.”
~ Walter Scott, Rob Roy
“You will, I trust, resemble a forest plant, which has indeed, by some accident, been brought up in the greenhouse, and thus rendered delicate and effeminate, but which regains its native firmness and tenacity, when exposed for a season to the winter air.”
~ Walter Scott, Redgauntlet
“I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom," he said to himself, "but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.”
~ Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.”
~ Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“No word of commiseration can make a burden feel one feather's weight lighter to the slave who must carry it.”
~ Walter Scott, Rob Roy
“I should be rather like the wild hawk, who, barred the free exercise of his soar through heaven, will dash himself to pieces against the bars of his cage.”
~ Walter Scott, Rob Roy
“Everything is possible for him who possesses courage and activity….and to the timid and hesitating everything is impossible, because it seems so.”
~ Walter Scott, Rob Roy
“Honour is a homicide and a bloodspiller, that gangs about making frays in the street; but Credit is a decent honest man, that sits at hame and makes the pat play.”
~ Walter Scott, Rob Roy
“Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.”
~ Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel 1805
“Upon subjects which interested him, and when quite at ease, he possessed that flow of natural, and somewhat florid eloquence, which has been supposed as powerful as figure, fashion, fame, or fortune, in winning the female heart. There”
~ Walter Scott, Waverley
“I have sought but a kindred spirit to share it, and I have found such in thee.”
~ Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.”
~ Walter Scott, Tales of My Landlord
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.”
~ Walter Scott, Marmion
“We are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon”
~ Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice”
~ Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“the worst evil which befalls our race is, that when we are wronged and plundered, all the world laughs around, and we are compelled to suppress our sense of injury, and to smile tamely, when we would revenge bravely.”
~ Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“Your lordship’s servant has a sensible, natural, pretty idea of military matters; somewhat irregular, though, and smells a little too much of selling the bear’s skin before he has hunted him.”
~ Walter Scott, A Legend of Montrose
“Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.”
~ Walter Scott, The Talisman
“The rose is fairest when 't is budding new,
And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears;
The rose is sweetest washed with morning dew
And love is loveliest when embalmed in tears.”
~ Walter Scott, The Lady Of The Lake: Canto Iv. - The Prophecy
“I'll listen, till my fancy hears
The clang of swords' the crash of spears!
These grates, these walls, shall vanish then
For the fair field of fighting men,
And my free spirit burst away,
As if it soared from battle fray.”
~ Walter Scott, Lady of the Lake
“A moment of peril is often also a moment of open-hearted kindness and affection. We are thrown off our guard by the general agitation of our feelings, and betray the intensity of those which, at more tranquil periods, our prudence at least conceals, if it cannot altogether suppress them.”
~ Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
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