Quotes by : Sir Walter Scott

True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire....

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

Adversity is like the period of the rain ... cold comfortless unfriendly to man and to animal yet....

Adversity is to me at least a tonic and a bracer.

It is only when I dally with what I am about look back and aside instead of keeping my eyes straight....

...[E]xcept the flying fish, there was no race existing on the earth, in the air, or the waters, who....

Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

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....

But search the land of living men Where wilt thou find their like again.