Walter Scott
Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, FRSEwas a Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet with many contemporary readers in Europe, Australia, and North America...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth15 August 1771
stupid believe age
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
firsts ladders climbs
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
revenge mouths hell
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
smile past looks
Look back, and smile on perils past.
inspirational your-side discipline
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
inspirational motivational attitude
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
horse land spurs
Spur not an unbroken horse; put not your plowshare too deep into new land.
revenge fate gold
'Tis an old tale, and often told; But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in story old, Of maiden true betray'd for gold, That loved, or was avenged, like me!
revenge thinking blood
Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame!
inspiration men reason
When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.
wine needs red
Good wine needs neither bush nor preface to make it welcome. And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd.
men names he-man
The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
adversity presence-of-mind tempest
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
respect warrior joy
Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel.