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
heart practice envy
I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice
taught cruelty
It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.
evil doe praise
For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.
fighting names enough
In the name of God!" said Gurth, "how came they prisoners? and to whom?" "Our master was too ready to fight," said the Jester, "and Athelstane was not ready enough, and no other person was ready at all.
boys play
The schoolmaster is termed, classically, Ludi Magister, because he deprives boys of their play.
forgiveness morning repentance
But with morning cool repentance came.
grain spills covetousness
Covetousness bursts the sack and spills the grain.
ambition cures
Ambition is no cure for love!
death art rivers
Like the dew on the mountain, like the foam on the river, like the bubble on the fountain, thou art gone, and for ever!
royalty vain sigh
For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.
moon men speech
Good even, good fair moon, good even to thee. I prithee, dear moon, now show to me the form and the features, the speech and degree, of the man that true lover of mine shall be.
poverty good-company company
Oh, poverty parts good company.
first-love snow firsts
From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
groundhog-day self dust
Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonor'd, and unsung.