Walter Scott Quotes

Scottish - Novelist August 15, 1771 - September 21, 1832

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

Wisdom First Deceive Web Tangled Practise Weave

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

Religion Doubt Well Matters Easier Examine Finds Historical Than Those Vulgar Which

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

Education Men Who Own Anything Chief Had Hand Out Turned Worth

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

Dreams Light Fair Pleasing Each

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Love Love Is Men Heaven Above Below Camp Court Grove Rules Saints

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

Tree Fruit Tall Right Climbs Gulf His Leaps Prevail Should Suit Wide Won He

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

Attitude Success Important Ability Equally

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

Success Mind Your Desire Asleep Awake Keeping

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

Nature You Tree Fruit Autumn Blossoms Borne Look Spring Unless Will

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

Perfection True Honor Glory Ambitious Incentive Natures Principle Very Virtue Our

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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Shadow Dark Door Lake Away Cottage Many Miles Scottish Shore

What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.

Long Important More Say Eyelashes Far How Than

If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

Farmer He Empty Barn Actor Fills Gets Grain His Leaves Mice

Look back, and smile on perils past.

Smile Past Look Back Perils

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

Attitude Success Failure Business Capacities Caused Even Mental Mental Attitude More Than

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

Impossible Everything Because Seems Timid

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

You Your Rise Side After Bolt Hour Once Ought Over Turn Up Turn-On Which

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

Greatness Most Drinking Vices Incompatible

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

Truth Will Compass Faithful Nail Near Placed Rusty Sway Wreck

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

Strength Will Purpose Energy Assurance Boldness Doing Duty Wonderful Our

Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

Beauty Escape Us Most Faces Charmed

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.

Alone Thinking Feel About Companions Doubly Gone Ourselves

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

Time Age Year New Year's Cheer Deemed Each Fittest New-Born

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, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

Wisdom Poetry Grace Mind Children Hereditary Heroic Lends Makes Opens Teach Virtues Your

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

See Build Snow Out Melt Statues Them Weep

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

Life Perfection Us Reason Discretion Duties Guide

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