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
real people mind
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.
eye heart hands
Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die.
rainbow heaven dip
What skilful limner e'er would choose To paint the rainbow's varying hues, Unless to mortal it were given To dip his brush in dyes of heaven?
grain spills covetousness
Covetousness bursts the sack and spills the grain.
country color glory
Stood for his country's glory fast, And nailed her colors to the mast!
character tragedy denmark
The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.
selfishness causes world
Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides.
rome dies
Methinks I will not die quite happy without having seen something of that Rome of which I have read so much.
men heaven given
True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.
rain flower adversity
Adversity is like the period of the rain. . . cold, comfortless, unfriendly to people and to animals; yet from that season have their birth the flower, the fruit, the date, the rose and the pomegranate.
morning fear love-is
The rose is fairest when 't is budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew, And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.
fear lying book
The Book of Books Within this ample volume lies The mystery of mysteries. Happiest they of human race To whom their God has given grace To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, To lift the latch, to force the way; But better had they ne'er been born That read to doubt or read to scorn.
ambition serious-business toys
Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.
doe information matter
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.