Quotes by Walter Scott

Cutting honest throats by whispers.

The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.

Is death the last sleep? No it is the last final awakening.

One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.

The sickening pang of hope deferrd.

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.

And love is loveliest when embalmd in tears.

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

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

I cannot tell how the truth may be I say the tale as twas said to me.

O Caledonia! stern and wild Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood Land of the mountain and the flood Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can eer untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand!

To all to each a fair goodnight And pleasing dreams and slumbers light.

Her blue eyes sought the west afar For lovers love the western star.

Welcome as the flowers in May.

O Woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain coy and hard to please And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made When pain and anguish wring the brow A ministering angel thou!

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

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

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

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his childs board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

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