Walter Scott: Trending quotes (page 5)

“Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won!”

Walter Scott book Ivanhoe

Source: Ivanhoe (1819), Ch. 31, Wamba celebrates their victory.

Walter Scott

Canto III, stanza 1.
The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)

Time

“…We beg leave to transport the reader to the back-parlour of the post-master's house at Fairport, where his wife, he himself being absent, was employed in assorting for delivery the letters which had come by the Edinburgh post. This is very often in country towns the period of the day when gossips find it particularly agreeable to call on the man or woman of letters, in order, from the outside of the epistles, and, if they are not belied, occasionally from the inside also, to amuse themselves with gleaning information, or forming conjectures about the correspondence and affairs of their neighbours. Two females of this description were, at the time we mention, assisting, or impeding, Mrs. Mailsetter in her official duty.”

Walter Scott book The Antiquary

The Antiquary (1816), On the postal service

Time , Housing , Country

“Norman saw on English oak.
On English neck a Norman yoke;
Norman spoon to English dish,
And England ruled as Normans wish;
Blithe world in England never will be more,
Till England's rid of all the four.”

Walter Scott book Ivanhoe

Source: Ivanhoe (1819), Ch. 27, Proverb recited by Wamba to De Bracy and Front-de-Boeuf.

World

“Still are the thoughts to memory dear.”

Walter Scott book Rokeby

Canto I, stanza 33.
Rokeby (1813)

Memory

“One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honour or observation.”

Walter Scott

Countess Brenhilda in Count Robert of Paris (1832), Ch. 25.

Life , Men , Water

“O, Woman! in our hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,
And variable as the shade
By the light quivering aspen made;
When pain and anguish wring the brow,
A ministering angel thou!”

Walter Scott Marmion

Canto VI, st. 30.
Marmion (1808)

Pain , Angels , Light

“Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.”

Walter Scott

Life of Napoleon.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Stood for his country’s glory fast,
And nail’d her colours to the mast!”

Walter Scott Marmion

Canto I, introduction, st. 10.
Marmion (1808)

Country

“Alas! fair Rowena," returned De Bracy, "you are in presence of your captive, not your jailor; and it is from your fair eyes that De Bracy must receive that doom which you fondly expect from him.”

Walter Scott book Ivanhoe

Source: Ivanhoe (1819), Ch. 23, De Bracy's vain attempt to woo Rowena using the language of courtly love.

“My dear, be a good man — be virtuous — be religious — be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here. …God bless you all.”

Walter Scott

Last words, as quoted in John Gibson Lockhart Memoirs of the life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Vol. VII (1838), p. 294

God , Lie

“When, musing on companions gone,
We doubly feel ourselves alone.”

Walter Scott Marmion

Canto II, introduction.
Marmion (1808)

Feeling

“So shall he strive, in changeful hue,
Field, feast, and combat, to renew,
And loves, and arms, and harpers' glee,
And all the pomp of chivalry.”

Walter Scott Marmion

Canto V, introduction.
Marmion (1808)

Love , Change

“Such is the custom of Branksome Hall.”

Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel

Canto I, stanza 7.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)

“Ah, County Guy, the hour is nigh,
The sun has left the lea.
The orange flower perfumes the bower,
The breeze is on the sea.”

Walter Scott book Quentin Durward

Quentin Durward, Chap. iv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Guy , Flowers , Sun , Sea

“I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.”

Walter Scott book The Betrothed

The Betrothed, Chap. xxviii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“And better had they ne'er been born,
Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.”

Walter Scott book The Monastery

Source: The Monastery (1820), Ch. 12.

Reading

“[Romeo … transfers his affections from Rosalind to Juliet] 'A lover, my dear Lady Betty,' said Flora, 'may, I conceive, persevere in his suit, under very discouraging circumstances. Affection can (now and then) withstand very severe storms of rigour, but not a long polar frost of downright indifference. Don't, even with your attractions, try the experiment upon any lover whose faith you value. Love will subsist on wonderfully little hope, but not altogether without it.”

Walter Scott book Waverley

Source: Waverley (1814), Chapter LIV

Love , Faith , Hope , Lovers

“It's no fish ye're buying, it's men's lives.”

Walter Scott book The Antiquary

Volume I, Ch. 11.
The Antiquary (1816)

Men , Fish

“A mother's pride, a father's joy.”

Walter Scott book Rokeby

Canto III, stanza 15.
Rokeby (1813)

Joy