“There is a southern proverb—fine words butter no parsnips.”
Walter Scott book A Legend of Montrose
A Legend of Montrose (1819), Ch. 3.
Quotes from bookA Legend of Montrose
A Legend of Montrose is an historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, set in Scotland in the 1640s during the English Civil War. It forms, along with The Bride of Lammermoor, the 3rd series of Scott's Tales of My Landlord. The two novels were published together in 1819.
