Walter Scott Quotes About Honor

Quotes about: Honor

• 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

  Mean, Men, Years

  Sir Walter Scott (189?). “the bride of Lammermoor”

• Those who follow the banners oreason are like the well-disciplined battalions which, wearing a more sober uniform and making a less dazzling show than the light troops commanded by imagination, enjoy more safety, and even more honor, in the conflicts ohuman life.

  Walter Scott

  Men, Light, Imagination

  Sir Walter Scott (1880*). “Redgauntlet: A Tale of the Eighteenth Century ; The Pirate”

• 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

  Nature, Ambition, Perfection

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