Walter Scott
poet, playwright, linguist, translator, novelist, musicologist, biographer, writer, judge, poet lawyer, lawyer, historian, literary critic, short story writer
Read on Wikipedia1771 – 1832
All Quotes by Walter Scott
“Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!”
“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.”
“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.”
“Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.”
“Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.”
“My hope, my heaven, my trust must be,”
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.”
“Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.”
“For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.”
“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”
“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.”
“Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.”
“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 that's broken!”
“Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.”
“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”
“The wretch, concentred all in self,”
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.”
“To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.”