Best Walter Scott Quotes

Walter Scott Quotes About Scotland, The Longer a person is Single, Waverley Station, Death, Life, Friendship & Family! Walter Scott flourished as a historian, writer, poet, and biographer among his many talents. On August 15, 1771, in Edinburgh, Scotland, a boy named Walter Scott was born. He went to Edinburgh High School and the University of Edinburgh to get his education and pursue a career in law. Only one leg was amputated in infancy, but that didn’t deter him from writing works of great significance in Scottish literary history, particularly Romanticism.

Scott was charmed by the Border’s customs and culture, and in 1802 he released his first book, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Borders. His second masterpiece, the Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805), established him as a significant literary figure. In 1806 Scott and James Ballantyne founded a publishing company. Due to Ballantyne’s financial failures, Scott had to devote the remainder of his life to repaying those loans.

Among his best-known works are Old Mortality, Rob Roy, The Lady of the Lake, and The Bride of Lammermoor. Scott is famous for the high quality of his prose. Scott is well-known for the high quality of his writing. Drawing on the lives of ordinary people who were caught up in violent, dramatic events of history, he created characters and narratives that mirrored the lives of those affected by these events.” His historical writings focused heavily on issues of tolerance and social justice. Everyone should expect a good life, no matter who they were born into or what they were taught in school or religion or politics.

He was the first author to explore the tensions between several cultural traditions in a book. They were all depicted in a very realistic manner by him. On September 21, 1832, he was laid to rest. During the 18th century, enlightenment significantly impacted Scott’s work.

Best Walter Scott Quotes

1. Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.– Walter Scott 

2. All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.– Walter Scott 

3. Oh, what a tangled web we weave…when first we practice to deceive.– Walter Scott 

4. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love.– Walter Scott 

5. 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.– Walter Scott 

6. Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.– Walter Scott 

7. Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.– Walter Scott 

8. The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?– Walter Scott 

9. Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.– Walter Scott 

10. Each age has deemed the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer.– Walter Scott 

11. We are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon.– Walter Scott 

12. Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!– Walter Scott 

13. I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom,” he said to himself, “but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.– Walter Scott 

14. Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.– Walter Scott 

15. I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice.– Walter Scott 

16. A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.– Walter Scott 

17. 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.– Walter Scott 

18. Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!– Walter Scott 

19. It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.– Walter Scott 

20. Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.– Walter Scott 

21. Love will subsist on wonderfully little hope but not altogether without it.– Walter Scott 

22. Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.– Walter Scott 

23. Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.– Walter Scott 

24. One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.– Walter Scott 

25. Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.– Walter Scott 

26. Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. – Walter Scott 

27. I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!– Walter Scott 

28. I have sought but a kindred spirit to share it, and I have found such in thee.– Walter Scott 

29. When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.– Walter Scott 

30. My hope, my heaven, my trust must be, My gentle guide, in following thee.– Walter Scott