Top 350 Walter Scott Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Good even, good fair moon, good even to thee. I prithee, dear moon, now show to me the form and the features, the speech and degree, of the man that true lover of mine shall be.”

— Walter Scott

102. “Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye ’re sleeping.”

— Walter Scott

103. “Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of.”

— Walter Scott

104. “What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.”

— Walter Scott

105. “Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours – ambition is the serious business of life.”

— Walter Scott

106. “Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame!”

— Walter Scott

107. “The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.”

— Walter Scott

108. “There is a southern proverb – fine words butter no parsnips.”

— Walter Scott

109. “Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.”

— Walter Scott

110. “Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.”

— Walter Scott

111. “O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that’s broken!”

— Walter Scott

112. “Covetousness bursts the sack and spills the grain.”

— Walter Scott

113. “A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.”

— Walter Scott

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

— Walter Scott

115. “Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.”

— Walter Scott

116. “Oh, Brignall banks are wild and fair, And Greta woods are green, And you may gather garlands there Would grace a summer’s queen.”

— Walter Scott

117. “Just at the age ’twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.”

— Walter Scott

118. “Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.”

— Walter Scott

119. “Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.”

— Walter Scott

120. “Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.”

— Walter Scott

121. “Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!”

— Walter Scott

122. “Look not thou on beauty’s charming; Sit thou still when kings are arming; Taste not when the wine-cup glistens; Speak not when the people listens.”

— Walter Scott

123. “Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.”

— Walter Scott

124. “What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.”

— Walter Scott

125. “A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.”

— Walter Scott

126. “Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.”

— Walter Scott

127. “The lover’s pleasure, like that of the hunter, is in the chase, and the brightest beauty loses half its merit, as the flower its perfume, when the willing hand can reach it too easily. There must be doubt; there must be difficulty and danger.”

— Walter Scott

128. “Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.”

— Walter Scott

129. “Come forth, old man, – thy daughter’s side Is now the fitting place for thee: When time has quell’d the oak’s bold pride, The youthful tendril yet may hide, The ruins of the parent tree.”

— Walter Scott

130. “Thou hast had thty day, old dame, but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an old warhorse turned out on the barren heath; thou hast had thy paces in thy time, but now a broken amble is the best of them.”

— Walter Scott

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

— Walter Scott

132. “But woe awaits a country when She sees the tears of bearded men.”

— Walter Scott

133. “On his bold visage middle age Had slightly press’d its signet sage, Yet had not quench’d the open truth And fiery vehemence of youth: Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare.”

— Walter Scott

134. “Oh what a tangled web we weave...”

— Walter Scott

135. “Ambition is no cure for love!”

— Walter Scott

136. “I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.”

— Walter Scott

137. “When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.”

— Walter Scott

138. “We are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon.”

— Walter Scott

139. “Where, where was Roderick then? One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men.”

— Walter Scott

140. “Hail to the chief in triumph advances.”

— Walter Scott

141. “Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.”

— Walter Scott

142. “The schoolmaster is termed, classically, Ludi Magister, because he deprives boys of their play.”

— Walter Scott

143. “For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.”

— Walter Scott

144. “Treason seldom dwells with courage.”

— Walter Scott

145. “I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice.”

— Walter Scott

146. “And children know, Instinctive taught, the friend and foe.”

— Walter Scott

147. “Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides.”

— Walter Scott

148. “But with morning cool repentance came.”

— Walter Scott

149. “Rebecca! she who could prefer death to dishonor must have a proud and powerful soul!”

— Walter Scott

150. “Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.”

— Walter Scott