Quotes by : Walter Scott

Perhaps the perusal of such works may, without injustice, be compared with the use of opiates, baneful,....

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the....

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken,....

And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.

Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave....

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

Craigengelt, you are either an honest fellow in right good earnest, and I scarce know how to believe....

But there stands the sword of my ancestor Sir Richard Vernon, slain at Shrewsbury, and sorely slandered....

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

Thou hast had thty day, old dame, but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an old....