Quotes by : Sir Walter Scott

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

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

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....

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

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

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

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.