Quotes by Walter Scott

“The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.”

“It is only when I dally with what I am about look back and aside instead of keeping my eyes straight forward that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.”

“To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.”

“Is death the last sleep? No it is the last final awakening.”

“The chain of friendship however bright does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.”

“One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.”

“The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow man and no one who has ...”

“Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.”

“I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right but when I am a little in the wrong.”

“The sickening pang of hope deferr'd.”

“To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.”

“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.”

“And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.”

“To all to each a fair good night And pleasing dreams and slumbers light.”

“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.”

“Breathes there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said This is my own my native land!”

“I cannot tell how the truth may be I say the tale as 'twas said to me.”

“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 Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial ban...”

“To all to each a fair goodnight And pleasing dreams and slumbers light.”

“Her blue eyes sought the west afar For lovers love the western star.”