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
sleep joy
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
spring celestial sensibility
Sensibility is nature's celestial spring.
love flower hands
The lover's pleasure, like that of the hunter, is in the chase, and the brightest beauty loses half its merit, as the flower its perfume, when the willing hand can reach it too easily. There must be doubt; there must be difficulty and danger.
hours ends
Every hour has its end.
reading world annoying
If a faultless poem could be produced, I am satisfied it would tire the critics themselves; and annoy the whole reading world with the spleen.
courage virtue
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
courage treason
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
children childhood taught
And children know, Instinctive taught, the friend and foe.
heart humble character
A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
book stories privilege
It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
eye exercise ideas
The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
women diaries treasure
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
littles
Love will subsist on wonderfully little hope but not altogether without it.
life positive education
We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.