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
revenge mouths hell
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
smile past looks
Look back, and smile on perils past.
inspirational your-side discipline
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
inspirational motivational attitude
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
faith character writing
Woman's faith and woman's trust, Write the characters in dust.
beautiful imagination rose
Besides, Rose Bradwardine, beautiful and amiable as we have described her, had not precisely the sort of beauty or merit which captivates a romantic imagination in early youth. She was too frank, too confiding, too kind; amiable qualities, undoubtedly, but destructive of the marvellous, with which a youth of imagination delights to dress the empress of his affections.
memories dear dear-me
Still are the thoughts to memory dear.
memories dear dear-me
Still are the thoughts to memory dear.
food nuts mellow
Mellow nuts have the hardest rind.
dream years progress
Though varying wishes, hopes, and fears, Fever'd the progress of these years, Yet now, days, weeks, and months but seem The recollection of a dream.
feet clouds brave
He that follows the advice of reason has a mind that is elevated above the reach of injury; that sits above the clouds, in a calm and quiet ether, and with a brave indifferency hears the rolling thunders grumble and burst under his feet.
time fate drs
"Lambe them, lads! lambe them!" a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked on the head by the rabble in Charles the First's time.
inspirational success wind
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
years two behavior
One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.