William Scott, 1er baron Stowell est un juge et juriste anglais. Il a été juge à la Haute Cour d'amirauté de 1798 à 1828. Wikipedia
William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell
The Gratitudine (18 December 1801); as published in Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Admiralty, Commencing with the Judgments of the Right Hon. Sir William Scott, Michaelmas Term, 1798, Vol. III (1802) http://books.google.com/books?id=-vcvAAAAYAAJ, p. 266.
“Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.”
William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell
As quoted in History of the Anti-Corn Law League (1853), by Archibald Prentice, p. 54; around 1876 this began to began to be cited to W. Scott, and then around 1880 sometimes to Walter Scott, but without citations of source, including a variant: "Selfish ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude" in a publication of 1907.
“A dinner lubricates business.”
William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell
As quoted in Life of Johnson (1791) by James Boswell, Vol. viii., p. 67, note.
“The elegant simplicity of the three per cents.”
William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell
As quoted in Lives of the Lord Chancellors (1845) by John Campbell, Vol. x. Chap. 212; this precedes the use by Benjamin Disraeli of "The sweet simplicity of the three per cents", in Endymion (1880).
