Walter Scott: Trending quotes (page 2)

“Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!”

Walter Scott

Age , Stupidity , Future

“A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.”

Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott Collection Guy Mannering. Chap. xxxvii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

History , Literature , Knowledge

“Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be ay sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye're sleeping.”

Walter Scott book The Heart of Midlothian

The Heart of Midlothian (1818), Ch. 8.

Sleep , Tree

“There's a gude time coming.”

Walter Scott book Rob Roy

Source: Rob Roy (1817), Chapter 32.

Time

“Art thou a friend to Roderick?”

Walter Scott

Canto IV, stanza 30.
The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)

Art

“He’s expected at noon, and no wight till he comes
May profane the great chair, or the porridge of plums;
For the best of the cheer, and the seat by the fire,
Is the undenied right of the Barefooted Friar.”

Walter Scott book Ivanhoe

Source: Ivanhoe (1819), Ch. 17, One of the verses of the ballad "The Barefooted Friar", sung by Friar Tuck to the Black Knight.

“Now I protest to thee, gentle reader, that I entirely dissent from Francisco de Ubeda in this matter, and hold it the most useful quality of my pen, that it can speedily change from grave to gay, and from description and dialogue to narrative and character. So that, if my quill display no other propertoies of its mothergoose than her mutability, truly I shall be well pleased; and I conceive that you, my worthy friend, will have no occasion for discontent. From the jargon, therefore, of the Highland gillies, I pass to the character of their Chief. It is an important examination, and therefore, like Dogberry, we must spare no wisdom.”

Walter Scott book Waverley

Source: Waverley (1814), Chapter XIX

Wisdom , Change

“But with the morning cool reflection came.”

Walter Scott book Chronicles of the Canongate

Chronicles of the Canongate, Chap. iv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war,
There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.”

Walter Scott Marmion

Canto V, st. 12 (Lochinvar, st. 1).
Marmion (1808)

Love , War , Faith

“O! many a shaft at random sent
Finds mark the archer little meant!
And many a word, at random spoken,
May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!”

Walter Scott The Lord of the Isles

Canto V, stanza 18.
The Lord of the Isles (1815)

Heart

“A foot more light, a step more true,
Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew.”

Walter Scott

Canto I, stanza 18.
The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)

Flowers , Light

“Chivalry!-why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection-the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant-Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.”

Walter Scott book Ivanhoe

Source: Ivanhoe (1819), Ch. 29, Ivanhoe explains to Rebecca the virtues of chivalry.

“Thus aged men, full loth and slow,
The vanities of life forego,
And count their youthful follies o'er,
Till Memory lends her light no more.”

Walter Scott book Rokeby

Canto V, stanza 1.
Rokeby (1813)

Life , Men , Youth , Age

“O fading honours of the dead!
O high ambition, lowly laid!”

Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel

Canto II, stanza 10.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)

Dead

“In man's most dark extremity
Oft succour dawns from Heaven.”

Walter Scott The Lord of the Isles

Canto I, stanza 20.
The Lord of the Isles (1815)

“Thy hue, dear pledge, is pure and bright
As in that well-remember'd night
When first thy mystic braid was wove,
And first my Agnes whisper'd love.”

Walter Scott

To a Lock of Hair http://www.bartleby.com/106/105.html.

Love , Night

“Vacant heart, and hand, and eye,
Easy live and quiet die.”

Walter Scott book The Bride of Lammermoor

The Bride of Lammermoor (1819), Ch. 3 - Lucy Ashton's Song.

Heart

“Bluid is thicker than water.”

Walter Scott book Guy Mannering

Guy Mannering (1815), Ch. 38.

Water

“I cannot tell how the truth may be;
I say the tale as 'twas said to me.”

Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel

Canto II, stanza 22.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)

Truth

“No pale gradations quench his ray,
No twilight dews his wrath allay.”

Walter Scott book Rokeby

Canto VI, stanza 21.
Rokeby (1813)