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
race mutual-help fellow-man
The race of humankind would perish did they cease to aid each other.
eyelashes long important
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
groundhog-day self dust
Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonor'd, and unsung.
fighting land patriotism
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
nature poet celebrate
Call it not vain: they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies.
faith character writing
Woman's faith and woman's trust, Write the characters in dust.
country men tears
But woe awaits a country when She sees the tears of bearded men.
memories dear dear-me
Still are the thoughts to memory dear.
long storm frost
Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference.
doubt born scorn
And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
dog men share
He hath a share of man's intelligence, but no share of man's falsehood.
men horns blast
Where, where was Roderick then? One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men.
heaven bullets knows
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet
littles madness talent
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.