Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
Walter Scott
Related
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Of all the vices drinking is the most incompatible with greatness
SIR WALTER SCOTT Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.
MIKHAIL BULGAKOV With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I ca...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Although my mother had the greatest love for Sir Walter Scott, and the highest appreciation of his p...
CATHERINE HELEN SPENCE Walter Mitty: To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to fi...
JAMES THURBER Sean O'Connell: Sometimes I don't. If I like a moment, for me, personally, I don't like to have the ...
JAMES THURBER In order to have sacred thoughts, give up the vices like consumption of non-vegetarian food, smoking...
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA Idleness is the mother of all vices.
RUSSIAN PROVERB Conceit is incompatible with understanding
LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY Conceit is incompatible with understanding.
LEO TOLSTOY My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander D...
TERRY BROOKS the overall system is almost incompatible with honesty.
JAMES MCGREGOR The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience. Sir Walter Scot...
UNKNOWN I don't think there's anything cliche feminine about Jane Austen. And, anyway, her earliest ...
WHIT STILLMAN All this high-vacuum equipment is expensive and cumbersome and also incompatible with materials like...
JACK MCCARTHY Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and ...
JANE AUSTEN What is true is that honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune
MAHATMA GANDHI When you think well of others, cheerful with everyone, find the good in all there is, you are direct...
SISI MODISE The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, ...
WALTER SCOTT Honesty is incompatible with amassing a large fortune.
MAHATMA GANDHI These are the sorts of fundamental publishing vices of the most serious kind.
THEODORE PAPPAS Avoid sloth, the mother of all vices!
TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE All I can say is working with Ridley Scott is a dream come true.
JOEL EDGERTON Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett ...
CARLY FIORINA The biggest source of most abuse comes at home. We are absolutely opposed to all underage drinking.
JOE LUPPINO The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.
GOLAN LEVIN when potential greatness meets with actual greatness, the future is inspired with hope.
CHIDI PROSPER AGBUGBA Nineteen twentieths of [mankind is] opaque and unenlightened. Intimacy with most people will make yo...
JOHN ADAMS Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, t...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
JUVENAL The difference between faith and insanity is that faith is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusio...
WILLIAM HARWOOD Scott is one of the most talented and respected athletic directors in the nation. With Scott's arriv...
TODD TURNER To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other,...
THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY DOWNLOAD FREE 90541 This is a sensible step that brings Washington's gambling age in line with the drinking age, and the...
JENNIFER MCCAUSLAND She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get...
RUDOLPH DELSON The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members...
CORETTA SCOTT KING The one who overcomes egotism rids themselves of the most stubborn obstacle that blocks the way to...
COLTVOS The one who overcomes egotism rids themselves of the most stubborn obstacle that blocks the way to a...
COLTVOS It is to such men as Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson and Jackson and Franklin, all most lowly born, th...
JOSEPH PULITZER Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state...
LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state...
LEO TOLSTOY How indifferent he was to Carol after all, Therese thought. She felt he didn't see her, as he someti...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH Great man is the one who is aware of his smallness in this universe! Greatness starts first of all w...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN All's well that carries on well
AMIT ABRAHAM It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
EDMUND BURKE It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact
EDMUND BURKE Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction ...
ERICH FROMM Such commands are fundamentally incompatible with our constitutional system of dual sovereignty.
ANTONIN SCALIA What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indee...
HANNAH ARENDT Life is beyond measure, it is the vastness of the star filled sky. Life is the highest peak on the m...
SHELLI THOMPSON No one who writes a good book is really dead.
WALTER MOERS Scott is a special player. He does it all.
TONY SABATINO Vices of the time; vices of the man.
[Lat., Vitia temporis; vitia hominis.]
FRANCIS BACON I played with Sam Lay, Jimmy Reed, Big Walter Horton, Big Moose Walker, and all those guys.
JIMMY SMITH Greatness is an attainment bought with the currency of time
SUNDAY ADELAJA Drinking coffee is like drinking an inverse yawn. I prefer mine with two spoonfuls of “I’m liste...
JAROD KINTZ We do not despise all those with vices, but we do despise all those without a single virtue.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisf...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK As a pastor, I addressed the sorts of issues I see people struggling with most and the issues talked...
KEVIN DEYOUNG Greatness is an attainment that is bought with the currency of time.
SUNDAY ADELAJA The sum of all vices does not remain constant. Each one breeds another.
DAVID LAGERCRANTZ As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the m...
DAVID BRAINERD Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue
MOLIERE War with vices, but peace with individuals.
THOMAS HUGHES He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
WINSTON CHURCHILL He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
WINSTON CHURCHILL He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Greatness is synonymous with passion
SUNDAY ADELAJA I'm always edgy when I bowl and Walter Ray has been my most difficult opponent.
CHRIS COLLINS A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families al...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Of all the creatures that were made, man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood he is the only ...
MARK TWAIN Most people believe that the Creator of the universe wrote (or dictated) one of their books. Unfortu...
SAM HARRIS Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH [For his part, Lemmon says he's proud to work with Scott, and hopes to do it again.] Any actor that ...
JACK LEMMON We need Walter to feel real good. I always feel good when he feels good. I'm going to be careful wit...
MIKE HOLMGREN We are taught to be free from all vices of life. No greed, anger, lust, and attachment with any mund...
GIRDHAR JOSHI Bigotry is bad for business and having a governor who is obviously bigoted is fundamentally incompat...
ALAN HAWSE Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fo...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fo...
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the gover...
WENDELL WILLKIE Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.
SOURCE UNKNOWN We all know you're beautiful, Scott.
BECCA FITZPATRICK I played as a 17-year-old with Walter Smith, who must have been about 32. So I've known Walter for 2...
RICHARD GOUGH Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictato...
ISMAIL KADARE The secret of all greatness is in knowing what to do with time. The secret of all the great men and ...
SUNDAY ADELAJA With much sweat greatness is achieved
DANIEL OKE Neil didn't negotiate with me. Walter and Casey did.
BARRY ALVAREZ being different can work for the individual who are comfortable with themselves, and most importantl...
ELLEN J. BARRIER Godliness with contentment is rare.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Resentment is one burden that is incompatible with your success. Always be the first to forgive; and...
DAN ZADRA We ask all those tens of thousands of people who stood in line to view the body of Coretta Scott Kin...
DON EDWARDS The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD (Sir Stafford Cripps) has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire
WINSTON CHURCHILL It's the most complete team they've had since they had Xavier Lee and Kenny Scott.
STEVE ALLEN Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
More Walter Scott
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual he...
WALTER SCOTT He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out o...
WALTER SCOTT A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
WALTER SCOTT Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues he...
WALTER SCOTT Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
WALTER SCOTT Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
WALTER SCOTT When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
WALTER SCOTT One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth wh...
WALTER SCOTT Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and ...
WALTER SCOTT Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
WALTER SCOTT To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
WALTER SCOTT What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
WALTER SCOTT A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some kno...
WALTER SCOTT Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
WALTER SCOTT We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
WALTER SCOTT Look back, and smile on perils past.
WALTER SCOTT What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary wh...
WALTER SCOTT If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at ...
WALTER SCOTT Death, the last sleep? No the final awakening.
WALTER SCOTT Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native ...
WALTER SCOTT Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.
WALTER SCOTT Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but i...
WALTER SCOTT It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance...
WALTER SCOTT Death--the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.
WALTER SCOTT Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, th...
WALTER SCOTT It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his effi...
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 of a dark Scottish lake.
WALTER SCOTT For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
WALTER SCOTT O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spok...
WALTER SCOTT Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
WALTER SCOTT How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining un...
WALTER SCOTT Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
WALTER SCOTT He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail ...
WALTER SCOTT Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
WALTER SCOTT If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
WALTER SCOTT All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
WALTER SCOTT La vendetta, caro signore, la vendetta, la quale, èur essendo un peccato da gentiluomo come il vino...
WALTER SCOTT La vendetta, caro signore, la vendetta, la quale, pur essendo un peccato da gentiluomo come il vino,...
WALTER SCOTT A Christmas gambol oft could cheer
The poor man's heart through half the year.
WALTER SCOTT We met each other in junior high back in the '60s. Motown was in its heyday then. So we were no diff...
WALTER SCOTT We're in a catch-22,
WALTER SCOTT …having once seen him put forth his strength in battle, methinks I could know him again among a th...
WALTER SCOTT Each age has deemed the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer.
WALTER SCOTT Breathes there the man with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native l...
WALTER SCOTT To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principl...
WALTER SCOTT One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth wh...
WALTER SCOTT The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and t...
WALTER SCOTT Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
WALTER SCOTT The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, ...
WALTER SCOTT In the wide pile, by others heeded not,
Hers was one sacred solitary spot,
Whose gloomy ai...
WALTER SCOTT I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
WALTER SCOTT One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understandi...
WALTER SCOTT Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim. One crowded hour of glor...
WALTER SCOTT so wondrous wild, the whole might seem
the scenery of a fairy dream
WALTER SCOTT Trade has all the fascination of gambling without its moral guilt.
WALTER SCOTT Look back, and smile on perils past!
WALTER SCOTT XII.—LOCHINVAR. Oh! young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed...
WALTER SCOTT Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive
WALTER SCOTT Courtesy of tongue," said Rowena, "when it is used to veil churlishness of deed, is but a knight's g...
WALTER SCOTT Far better was our homely diet, eaten in peace and liberty, than the luxurious dainties, the love of...
WALTER SCOTT To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
WALTER SCOTT Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
WALTER SCOTT When I reflect with what slow and limited supplies the stream of science hath hitherto descended to ...
WALTER SCOTT Of this fickle temper he gave a memorable example in Ireland, when sent thither by his father, Henry...
WALTER SCOTT He that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good whic...
WALTER SCOTT ...[E]xcept the flying fish, there was no race existing on the earth, in the air, or the waters, who...
WALTER SCOTT ...[T]he Normans, with the usual policy of conquerors, were jealous of permitting to the vanquished ...
WALTER SCOTT As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,Who never to himself hath said,This is my own, my native l...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim. One crowded hour of glor...
SIR WALTER SCOTT If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to tho...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Come he slow or come he fast. It is but death who comes at last.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Death -- the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Is death the last step? No, it is the final awakening.
SIR WALTER SCOTT The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
SIR WALTER SCOTT All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
SIR WALTER SCOTT It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Look back, and smile at perils past.
SIR WALTER SCOTT O!, many a shaft at random sent
Finds mark the archer little meant!
And many a word at rando...
SIR WALTER SCOTT When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
SIR WALTER SCOTT A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some kno...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
SIR WALTER SCOTT One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth wh...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues her...
SIR WALTER SCOTT To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
SIR WALTER SCOTT A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
SIR WALTER SCOTT If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT The faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
SIR WALTER SCOTT The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual he...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive!
SIR WALTER SCOTT There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger...
SIR WALTER SCOTT But with morning cool repentance came.
SIR WALTER SCOTT We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Then, wearied by the uncertainty and difficulties with which each scheme appeared to be attended, he...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
SIR WALTER SCOTT To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man...
SIR WALTER SCOTT 'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'twas Christmas told the merriest tale; a Christmas gamb...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but i...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!
SIR WALTER SCOTT Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall for...
SIR WALTER SCOTT One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth wh...
SIR WALTER SCOTT We do that in our zeal our calmer moment would be afraid to
answer.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.
SIR WALTER SCOTT High minds, of native pride and force,
Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse;
Fear, for their sc...
SIR WALTER SCOTT I cannot tell how the truth may be;
I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
SIR WALTER SCOTT A foot more light, a step more true,
Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Contentions fierce,
Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Where's the coward that would not dare
To fight for such a land?
SIR WALTER SCOTT But with the morning cool repentance came.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Do what you should, not what you may.
SIR WALTER SCOTT After a bad harvest sow again. [Yield not to difficulties.]
SIR WALTER SCOTT A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Breathes there the man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my n...
SIR WALTER SCOTT The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new,
And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears;
The...
SIR WALTER SCOTT There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
SIR WALTER SCOTT For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Land of my sires! what mortal hand
Can e'er untie the filial band
That knits me to thy rugged...
SIR WALTER SCOTT He is most powerful who governs himself.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Consider an enemy may become a friend.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
SIR WALTER SCOTT As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
SIR WALTER SCOTT 'Tis an old tale, and often told;
But did my fate and wish agree,
Ne'er had been read, in stor...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Necessity--thou best of peacemakers,
As well as surest prompter of invention.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Vengeance, deep-brooding o'er the slain, Had locked the source of softer woe, And burning pride and ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Some feelings are to mortals given,
With less of earth in them than heaven.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains,
Winning from Reason's hand the reins,
Pity and woe! for su...
SIR WALTER SCOTT I cannot tell how the truth may be;
I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive! - Marmion.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Vengeance to God alone belongs;
But, when I think of all my wrongs
My blood is liquid flame!
SIR WALTER SCOTT Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!
SIR WALTER SCOTT Within that awful volume lies
The mystery of mysteries!
Happiest they of human race,
To ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT O Caledonia! stern and wild,
Meet nurse for a poetic child!
Land of brown heath and shaggy wo...
SIR WALTER SCOTT The play bill which is said to have announced the tragedy of
Hamlet, the character of the Prince of...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Contentious fierce,
Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
SIR WALTER SCOTT What skilful limner e'er would choose
To paint the rainbow's varying hues,
Unless to mortal it...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Forward and frolic glee was there,
The will to do, the soul to dare.
SIR WALTER SCOTT He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit.
SIR WALTER SCOTT My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Like the dew on the mountain,
Like the foam on the river,
Like the bubble on the fountain,
...
SIR WALTER SCOTT And honeysuckle loved to crawl
Up the low crag and ruin'd wall.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Well, then--our course is chosen--spread the sail--
Heave oft the lead, and mark the soundings wel...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Heap on more wood! the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT The will to do, the soul to dare.
SIR WALTER SCOTT And come he slow, or come he fast,
It is but death who comes at last.
SIR WALTER SCOTT To all, to each, a fair good night,
And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
SIR WALTER SCOTT O! many a shaft, at random sent,
Finds mark the archer little meant;
And many a word, at ran...
SIR WALTER SCOTT And let our barks across the pathless flood
Hold different courses.
SIR WALTER SCOTT With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.
SIR WALTER SCOTT The summer dawn's reflected hue
To purple changed Lock Katrine blue,
Mildly and soft the weste...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Loud o'er my head though awful thunders roll,
And vivid lightnings flash from pole to pole,
Ye...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Art thou a friend to Roderick?
SIR WALTER SCOTT Ah, County Guy, the hour is nigh,
The sun has left the lea,
The orange flower perfumes the bow...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Credit is like a looking - glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clean again; but...
SIR WALTER SCOTT The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in...
SIR WALTER SCOTT That day of wrath, that dreadful day, when heaven and earth shall pass away.
SIR WALTER SCOTT And come he slow, or come he fast,
SIR WALTER SCOTT Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
SIR WALTER SCOTT I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through
SIR WALTER SCOTT The consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT I am enamoured of my journal
SIR WALTER SCOTT Court not the critic's smile nor dread his frown
SIR WALTER SCOTT True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.
SIR WALTER SCOTT I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me
SIR WALTER SCOTT He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.
SIR WALTER SCOTT He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Scared out of his seven senses.
SIR WALTER SCOTT O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!
SIR WALTER SCOTT The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Haste, holy Friar,
Haste, ere the sinner shall expire!
Of all his guilt let him be shriven,
...
SIR WALTER SCOTT It [true love] is the secret sympathy,
The silver link, the silken tie,
Which heart to heart, ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled
with noble risks, is worth wh...
SIR WALTER SCOTT England was merry England, when
Old Christmas brought his sports again.
'Twas Christmas broach...
SIR WALTER SCOTT In listening mood she seemed to stand,
The guardian Naiad of the strand.
SIR WALTER SCOTT In man's most dark extremity
Oft succor dawns from Heaven.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Delightful praise!--like summer rose,
That brighter in the dew-drop glows,
The bashful maiden'...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Hard toil can roughen form and face,
And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
SIR WALTER SCOTT St. Leon raised his kindling eye,
And lifts the sparkling cup on high;
"I drink to one," he sa...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour o...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Jock, when he hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in
a tree; it will be growing, Jock, ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has
received one, proclaim it.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.
SIR WALTER SCOTT It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own
impetuosity.
SIR WALTER SCOTT It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
[Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
SIR WALTER SCOTT It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.
SIR WALTER SCOTT It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.
SIR WALTER SCOTT It is a disgrace to say one thing and think another; but how much
more disgraceful to write one thi...
SIR WALTER SCOTT If you live according to the requirements of nature, you will
never be in want; if according to the...
SIR WALTER SCOTT I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.
SIR WALTER SCOTT He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the
afflicted, denies it.
SIR WALTER SCOTT