Walter Scott Quotes

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• O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

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  Wisdom, Truth, Lying

  Marmion canto 6, st. 17 (1808)

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• Look back, and smile on perils past.

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  Smile, Past, Looks

  Walter Scott (1873). “Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott ...”, p.339

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• Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

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• War is the only game in which both sides lose.

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  War, Games, Sides

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• A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.

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  Heart, Humble, Character

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• The will to do, the soul to dare..

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  Inspirational, Running, Soul

  "The Lady of the Lake" by Walter Scott, Canto I, stanza 21, 1810.

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• For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

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  Success, Attitude, Important

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• If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

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  Inspirational, Success, Your Side

  Walter Scott (2015). “Sir Walter Scott: Collected Letters, Memoirs and Articles: Complete Autobiographical Writings, Journal & Notes, Accompanied with Extended Biographies and Reminiscences of the Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering”, p.84, e-artnow

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• Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

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  Wisdom, Children, Grace

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• The pith of conversation does not consist in exhibiting your own superior knowledge on matters of small consequence, but in enlarging, improving and correcting the information you possess by the authority of others.

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  Doe, Information, Matter

  Sir Walter Scott (1858). “Waverley Novels: Quentin Durward. 1862”, p.35

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• Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.

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  Art, Children, Garden

  "Periodical Criticism".

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• All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

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  Leadership, Educational, Learning

  Letter to J. G. Lockhart, c.16 June 1830, in H. J. C. Grierson (ed.) 'The Letters of Sir Walter Scott' vol. 11 (1936) p. 365

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• Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.

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  Courage, Virtue

  John Gibson Lockhart, Sir Walter Scott (1853). “Life of Sir Walter Scott, bart”, p.230

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• True love's the gift which God has given
  To man alone beneath the heaven.
  It is the secret sympathy,
  The silver link, the silken tie,
  Which heart to heart, and mind to mind,
  In body and in soul can bind.

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  Love, Life, Heart

  'The Lay of the Last Minstrel' (1805) canto 5, st. 13

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• There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

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  Character, Self, Excellence

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• Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!

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  Stupid, Believe, Age

  Walter Scott (2015). “The Complete Novels of Sir Walter Scott: Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, The Heart of Midlothian and many more (Illustrated): The Betrothed, The Talisman, Black Dwarf, The Monastery, The Abbot, Kenilworth, Peveril of the Peak, A Legend of Montrose, The Fortunes of Nigel, Tales from Benedictine Sources…”, p.1999, e-artnow

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• He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.

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  Ladders, Firsts, Climbs

  Sir Walter Scott (1855). “The Waverley Novels: In Twelve Volumes, Printed from the Latest English Editions, Embracing the Author's Last Corrections, Prefaces, and Notes”, p.50

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• Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges

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  Caring, Worry, Care

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• One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.

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  Years, Two, Behavior

  Walter Scott (1871). “Waverley Novels”

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• To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

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  Courage, Impossible Things, Possible And Impossible

  Walter Scott (2015). “Rob Roy”, p.428, Walter Scott

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• The lover's pleasure, like that of the hunter, is in the chase, and the brightest beauty loses half its merit, as the flower its perfume, when the willing hand can reach it too easily. There must be doubt; there must be difficulty and danger.

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  Love, Flower, Hands

  Sir Walter Scott (1871). “Waverley Novels”, p.352

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• Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.

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  Purpose, Amusement, May

  Sir Walter Scott (1841). “Novels of Ernest Theodore Hoffman. The omen. Hajji Baba in England. Tales of my landlord Thornton's Sporting tour. Two cookery books. Johnes' translation of Froissart. Miseries of human life. Carr's Caledonian sketches. Lady Suffolk's correspondence. Kirkton's Church history. Life and works of John Home. The Culloden papers. Pepys' Memoirs”, p.54

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• Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

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  Awake At Night, Mind, Desire

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• Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.

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  Revenge, Mouths, Hell

  Walter Scott (1875). “Waverley Novels: The heart of Mid-Lothian”, p.244

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• What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people's minds.

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  Real, People, Mind

  John Gibson Lockhart, Sir Walter Scott (1853). “Life of Sir Walter Scott, bart”, p.611

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