Quotes from book
The Monastery
The Monastery: a Romance is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott. Along with The Abbot, it is one of Scott's Tales from Benedictine Sources and is set in the time of Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Elizabethan period.
“And better had they ne'er been born,
Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.”
Source: The Monastery (1820), Ch. 12.
“Spur not an unbroken horse; put not your plowshare too deep into new land.”
Source: The Monastery (1820), Ch. 25.
“The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.”
Answer of the Author of Waverley to the Letter of Captain Clutterbuck.
The Monastery (1820)
