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Sir Walter Scott Quotes

«Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.»
«Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth»
Author: Sir Walter Scott (Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet) | About: Youth | Keywords: TwixT
«He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round»
«To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.»
«The consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the steps of the malefactor»
«The will to do, the soul to dare.»
«Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit»
«I am enamoured of my journal»
«Vengeance, deep-brooding o'er the slain, Had locked the source of softer woe, And burning pride and high disdain Forbade the rising tear to flow»
«Tis plain that there is not in nature a point of stability to be found: everything either ascends or declines. When wars are ended abroad, sedition begins at home, and when men are freed from fighting for necessity, they quarrel through ambition.»

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