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
heart humble character
A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
book stories privilege
It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
eye exercise ideas
The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
women diaries treasure
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
littles
Love will subsist on wonderfully little hope but not altogether without it.
life positive education
We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.
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.
fighting names enough
In the name of God!" said Gurth, "how came they prisoners? and to whom?" "Our master was too ready to fight," said the Jester, "and Athelstane was not ready enough, and no other person was ready at all.
spring heart heaven
Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
time character light
The time which passes over our heads so imperceptibly makes the same gradual change in habits, manners and character, as in personal appearance. At the revolution of every five years we find ourselves another and yet the same;--there is a change of views, and no less of the light in which we regard them; a change of motives as well as of action.
victory battle looks
It is more difficult to look upon victory than upon battle.
brain waste chess
Chess is a sad waste of brains.
soldier too-much sovereign
Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.
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.