Walter Scott
Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, FRSEwas a Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet with many contemporary readers in Europe, Australia, and North America...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth15 August 1771
men play credit
Honour is a homicide and a bloodspiller, that gangs about making frays in the street; but Credit is a decent honest man, that sits at hame and makes the pat play.
blow sake wounds
Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.
men imagination wealth
I did not myself set a high estimation on wealth, and had the affectation of most young men of lively imagination, who suppose that they can better dispense with the possession of money, than resign their time and faculties to the labour necessary to acquire it.
real men ignorant
Now, it is well known, that a man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach either of real good breeding or of good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute point of fashionable etiquette.
daughter pride men
Come forth, old man,--thy daughter's side Is now the fitting place for thee: When time has quell'd the oak's bold pride, The youthful tendril yet may hide, The ruins of the parent tree.
heaven want mirth
Here is neither want of appetite nor mouths, Pray heaven we be not scant of meat or mirth.
hope
The sickening pang of hope deferr'd.
courage rocks firm
Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base, as soon as I.
time courses
Time rolls his ceaseless course.
heaven thee guides
My hope, my heaven, my trust must be, My gentle guide, in following thee.
heart practice envy
I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice
taught cruelty
It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.
art broken long
Thou hast had thty day, old dame, but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an old warhorse turned out on the barren heath; thou hast had thy paces in thy time, but now a broken amble is the best of them.
evil doe praise
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.