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
lasts last-words stanley
"Charge, Chester, charge! on, Stanley, on!" Were the last words of Marmion.
selfishness causes world
Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides.
dark men heaven
In man's most dark extremity Oft succour dawns from Heaven.
littles madness talent
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
memories dear dear-me
Still are the thoughts to memory dear.
thank-you flower may
Welcome as the flowers in May.
party faults quarrels
In love quarrels the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault.
invention wells peacemaker
Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.
doubt born scorn
And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
race mutual-help fellow-man
The race of humankind would perish did they cease to aid each other.
brain waste chess
Chess is a sad waste of brains.
wise fool speech
A fool's wild speech confounds the wise.
victory battle looks
It is more difficult to look upon victory than upon battle.
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.