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
years two behavior
One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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.
spring heart heaven
Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
time character light
The time which passes over our heads so imperceptibly makes the same gradual change in habits, manners and character, as in personal appearance. At the revolution of every five years we find ourselves another and yet the same;--there is a change of views, and no less of the light in which we regard them; a change of motives as well as of action.
victory battle looks
It is more difficult to look upon victory than upon battle.
brain waste chess
Chess is a sad waste of brains.
soldier too-much sovereign
Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.
inspirational success wind
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
faces charm charmed
Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
adversity dark doors
Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
faithful wrecks association
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
spring autumn tree
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
broken-heart archer may
O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
lonely loneliness thinking
When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.