“Within that awful volume lies
The mystery, of mysteries!”
Walter Scott book The Monastery
Source: The Monastery (1820), Ch. 12.
Quotes from bookThe 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.”
Walter Scott book The Monastery
Source: The Monastery (1820), Ch. 12.
“Spur not an unbroken horse; put not your plowshare too deep into new land.”
Walter Scott book The Monastery
Source: The Monastery (1820), Ch. 25.
“The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.”
Walter Scott book The Monastery
Answer of the Author of Waverley to the Letter of Captain Clutterbuck.
The Monastery (1820)
