O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive! Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 1
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! Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
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. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
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. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
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 Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0