Quotes from Sir Walter Scott

By my faith,' said Wamba, 'it would seem the Templars love the Jews' inheritance better than they do their company.

Un processo è sempre breve quando un giudice ha già pronunziato in anticipo la sentenza

Mr. Oldbuck had been so much struck with the deportment of the fisherman and his mother, that, moved by compassion, and perhaps also, in some degree, by that curiosity which induces us to seek out even what gives us pain to witness, he preferred a solitary walk by the coast, for the purpose of again visiting the cottage as he passed.

Thou are boot for many a bruise, And healest many a wound; In our Lady's blessed name, I take thee from the ground.

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

Heap on the wood!-the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

Nothing is more the child of art than a garden

Good wine needs neither bush nor preface to make it welcome.

And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred.

Cats are mysterious kind of folk - there is more passing in their minds than we are aware of.

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit.

Tis plain that there is not in nature a point of stability to be found: everything either ascends or declines. When wars are ended abroad, sedition begins at home, and when men are freed from fighting for necessity, they quarrel through ambition.

In love quarrels the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault.

Court not the critic's smile nor dread his frown

And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but death who comes at last.

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

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

O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!

Oh, what tangled webs we weave, When we first practice to deceive.

Our time is like our money; when we change a guinea the shillings escape as things of small account; when we break a day by idleness in the morning, the rest of the hours lose their importance in our eyes.

To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love.