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
caring worry way
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
eye fighting men
Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!
art children garden
Nothing is more the child of art than a garden.
christmas xmas cheer
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.
inspiration actors barns
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
dog toil deceit
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
real danger valor
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
gay thinking clouds
We often praise the evening clouds, And tints so gay and bold, But seldom think upon our God, Who tinged these clouds with gold.
cat mysterious kind
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
blessed sleep night
Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
silence tongue maidens
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
glasses credit may
Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
wisdom truth lying
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
new-year cheer holiday
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.