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Walter Scott Quotes - Page 12

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Call it not vain: they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies.

Call it not vain: they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies.

Nature, Poet, Celebrate

Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott (1841). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart”, p.30

Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.

Truth, Boys, Age

Walter Scott (sir, bart.) (1855). “The poetical works of sir Walter Scott. With life. 8 engr. on steel”, p.89

The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.

Character, Tragedy, Denmark

The Talisman introduction (1825). Source of the expression "Hamlet without the Prince." The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations notes that W. J. Parke, in Musical Memories (1830), "gives a similar anecdote from 1787."

Alas!... what is it, valiant knight, save an offering of sacrifice to a demon of vain glory, and a passing through the fire of Moloch? What remains to you as a prize of all the blood you have spilled, of all the travail and pain you have endured, of all the tears which your deeds have caused, when death hath broken the strong man's spear, and overtaken the speed of his war-horse?

Strong, Horse, Pain

Walter Scott (2015). “Heroes of the Scottish Highlands: Ivanhoe, Waverley and Rob Roy (3 Unabridged Illustrated Classics): Historical Novels from the Author of The Pirate, The Heart of Midlothian, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, The Bride of Lammermoor and Anne of Geierstein”, p.261, e-artnow

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!

Broken Heart, Archer, May

'The Lord of the Isles' (1813) canto 5, st. 18

Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade.

Pain, Light, Dazzle

Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott (1841). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart”, p.415

Art thou a friend to Roderick?

Friendship, Art

Sir Walter Scott (1850). “The Lady of the Lake and Vision of Don Roderick: Complete in One Volume”, p.414

It 's no fish ye 're buying, it 's men's lives.

Life, Men, Buying

'The Antiquary' (1816) ch. 11

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.

Law, History, Historical

Guy Mannering ch. 37 (1815)

Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her light no more.

Life, Memories, Men

Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott (1841). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart”, p.324

Here is neither want of appetite nor mouths, Pray heaven we be not scant of meat or mirth.

Heaven, Meat, Mouths

Sir Walter Scott (1822). “Peveril of the Peak”, p.43

As hope and fear alternate chase Our course through life's uncertain race.

Change, Race, Uncertain

Sir Walter Scott (1838). “Poetical works”, p.310

What various scenes, and O! what scenes of Woe, Are witness'd by that red and struggling beam! The fever'd patient, from his pallet low, Through crowded hospitals beholds it stream; The ruined maiden trembles at its gleam, The debtor wakes to thought of gyve and jail, The love-lorn wretch starts from tormenting dream; The wakeful mother, by the glimmering pale, Trims her sick infant's couch, and soothes his feeble wail.

Mother, Dream, Morning

Walter Scott (2017). “Scott's Lady of the Lake”, p.152, Litres

Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendor, can never confer real happiness; the evil consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the steps of the malefactor; while the paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.

Real, Greatness, Long

In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster.

Beautiful, Lying, Book

Sir Walter Scott (1854). “The Waverley novels: in twelve volumes, printed from the latest English editions, embracing the author's last corrections, prefaces, and notes”, p.360

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

Women, Diaries, Treasure

What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?

Success, Running, Europe

Walter Scott (2015). “The Waverly Novels: 26 Books in One Volume – Complete Collection: Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Waverly, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, The Heart of Midlothian, The Betrothed, The Talisman, Black Dwarf, The Monastery, Kenilworth, Legend of Montrose”, p.5111, e-artnow

If a faultless poem could be produced, I am satisfied it would tire the critics themselves; and annoy the whole reading world with the spleen.

Reading, World, Annoying

Walter Scott (2015). “The Complete Short Stories of Sir Walter Scott: Chronicles of the Canongate, The Keepsake Stories, The Highland Widow, The Tapestried Chamber, Halidon Hill, Auchindrane and many more: From the Great Scottish Writer, Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, Anne of Geierstein, The Betrothed and The Talisman”, p.771, e-artnow

"Lambe them, lads! lambe them!" a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked on the head by the rabble in Charles the First's time.

Time, Fate, Drs

Walter Scott (2016). “Peveril of the Peak, Complete: Scott's Works Vol.26”, p.453, VM eBooks

He turn'd his charger as he spake, Upon the river shore, He gave his bridle reins a shake, Said, "Adieu for evermore, my love, And adieu for evermore."

Love, Rivers, Said

Walter Scott (1838). “The Lady of the Lake”, p.255

He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes.

Vanity, Sorrow, Arguing

Walter Scott (2015). “The Complete Novels of Sir Walter Scott: Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, The Heart of Midlothian and many more (Illustrated): The Betrothed, The Talisman, Black Dwarf, The Monastery, The Abbot, Kenilworth, Peveril of the Peak, A Legend of Montrose, The Fortunes of Nigel, Tales from Benedictine Sources…”, p.8097, e-artnow

For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of Lochinvar.

Love, War, Fairs

'Marmion' (1808) canto 5, st. 12 ('Lochinvar' st. 2)

So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like young Lochinvar.

Love, Faith, War

'Marmion' (1808) canto 5, st. 12 ('Lochinvar' st. 1)

Literature is a great staff, but a very sorry crutch.

Sorry, Literature, Staff

Born: August 15, 1771 - September 21, 1832
Occupation: Baronet Scott

Quotes: 299

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