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Top 350 Walter Scott Quotes (2026 Update)
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Walter Scott Quote: “Love, to her ear, was but a name, Combin’d with vanity and shame; Her hopes, her fears, her joys, were all Bounded within the cloister wall.”

201. “Love, to her ear, was but a name, Combin’d with vanity and shame; Her hopes, her fears, her joys, were all Bounded within the cloister wall.”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “Far better was our homely diet, eaten in peace and liberty, than the luxurious dainties, the love of which hath delivered us as bondsmen to the foreign conqueror!”

202. “Far better was our homely diet, eaten in peace and liberty, than the luxurious dainties, the love of which hath delivered us as bondsmen to the foreign conqueror!”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “That which is neither ill nor well. That which belongs not to Heaven nor to hell, A wreath of the mist, a bubble of the stream, ‘Twixt a waking thought and a sleeping dream; A form that men spy With the half-shut eye. In the beams of the setting sun, am I.”

203. “That which is neither ill nor well. That which belongs not to Heaven nor to hell, A wreath of the mist, a bubble of the stream, ‘Twixt a waking thought and a sleeping dream; A form that men spy With the half-shut eye. In the beams of the setting sun, am I.”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “In Waverley the reader is introduced to one of the great ideas of the modern novel: that reading has the power to mediate and deflect experience. Six.”

204. “In Waverley the reader is introduced to one of the great ideas of the modern novel: that reading has the power to mediate and deflect experience. Six.”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.”

205. “The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “Still are the thoughts to memory dear.”

206. “Still are the thoughts to memory dear.”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.”

207. “Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “Still from the sire the son shall hear Of the stern strife, and carnage drear, Of Flodden’s fatal field, When shiver’d was fair Scotland’s spear, And broken was her shield!”

208. “Still from the sire the son shall hear Of the stern strife, and carnage drear, Of Flodden’s fatal field, When shiver’d was fair Scotland’s spear, And broken was her shield!”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!”

209. “Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “Threatened folk live long.”

210. “Threatened folk live long.”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?”

211. “What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade.”

212. “Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade.”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.”

213. “Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “Mystery has great charms for womanhood.”

214. “Mystery has great charms for womanhood.”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief.”

215. “Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief.”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.”

216. “As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “No word of commiseration can make a burden feel one feather’s weight lighter to the slave who must carry it.”

217. “No word of commiseration can make a burden feel one feather’s weight lighter to the slave who must carry it.”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the man, and sets his two natures at variance.”

218. “He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the man, and sets his two natures at variance.”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.”

219. “There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “Stood for his country’s glory fast, And nailed her colors to the mast!”

220. “Stood for his country’s glory fast, And nailed her colors to the mast!”

— Walter Scott

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Walter Scott Quote: “A fool’s wild speech confounds the wise.”

221. “A fool’s wild speech confounds the wise.”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.”

222. “Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume.”

223. “The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume.”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like goodly vessels driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and so perish.”

224. “Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like goodly vessels driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and so perish.”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war’s rattle With groans of the dying.”

225. “In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war’s rattle With groans of the dying.”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.”

226. “To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “Oh, poverty parts good company.”

227. “Oh, poverty parts good company.”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “Hunger and fear are excellent casuists.”

228. “Hunger and fear are excellent casuists.”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.”

229. “The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “In love quarrels the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault.”

230. “In love quarrels the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault.”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “Necessity – thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.”

231. “Necessity – thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “Certainly,” quoth Athelstane, “women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted.”

232. “Certainly,” quoth Athelstane, “women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted.”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “The sickening pang of hope deferr’d.”

233. “The sickening pang of hope deferr’d.”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed!”

234. “The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed!”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “Hospitality to the exile, and broken bones to the tyrant.”

235. “Hospitality to the exile, and broken bones to the tyrant.”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “A thousand fearful images and dire suggestions glance along the mind when it is moody and discontented with itself. Command them to stand and show themselves, and you presently assert the power of reason over imagination.”

236. “A thousand fearful images and dire suggestions glance along the mind when it is moody and discontented with itself. Command them to stand and show themselves, and you presently assert the power of reason over imagination.”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “I see a hand you cannot see, Which beckons me away; I hear a voice you cannot hear, Which says I must not stay. MALLET.”

237. “I see a hand you cannot see, Which beckons me away; I hear a voice you cannot hear, Which says I must not stay. MALLET.”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.”

238. “Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “Here is neither want of appetite nor mouths, Pray heaven we be not scant of meat or mirth.”

239. “Here is neither want of appetite nor mouths, Pray heaven we be not scant of meat or mirth.”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “Merrily, merrily goes the bark On a breeze from the northward free, So shoots through the morning sky the lark, Or the swan through the summer sea.”

240. “Merrily, merrily goes the bark On a breeze from the northward free, So shoots through the morning sky the lark, Or the swan through the summer sea.”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “I was not always a man of woe.”

241. “I was not always a man of woe.”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “Besides, Rose Bradwardine, beautiful and amiable as we have described her, had not precisely the sort of beauty or merit which captivates a romantic imagination in early youth. She was too frank, too confiding, too kind; amiable qualities, undoubtedly, but destructive of the marvellous, with which a youth of imagination delights to dress the empress of his affections.”

242. “Besides, Rose Bradwardine, beautiful and amiable as we have described her, had not precisely the sort of beauty or merit which captivates a romantic imagination in early youth. She was too frank, too confiding, too kind; amiable qualities, undoubtedly, but destructive of the marvellous, with which a youth of imagination delights to dress the empress of his affections.”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “Spur not an unbroken horse; put not your plowshare too deep into new land.”

243. “Spur not an unbroken horse; put not your plowshare too deep into new land.”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “It was soon plain that what crumbs of reason the Bear had not devoured were to be picked up by the Hen; but the confusion which appeared to prevail favoured Edward’s resolution to evade the gaily circling glass. The others began to talk thick and at once, each performing his own part in the conversation without the least respect to his neighbour.”

244. “It was soon plain that what crumbs of reason the Bear had not devoured were to be picked up by the Hen; but the confusion which appeared to prevail favoured Edward’s resolution to evade the gaily circling glass. The others began to talk thick and at once, each performing his own part in the conversation without the least respect to his neighbour.”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “He hath a share of man’s intelligence, but no share of man’s falsehood.”

245. “He hath a share of man’s intelligence, but no share of man’s falsehood.”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.”

246. “Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.”

247. “Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “Ridicule, the weapon of all others most feared by enthusiasts of every description, and which from its predominance over such minds, often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.”

248. “Ridicule, the weapon of all others most feared by enthusiasts of every description, and which from its predominance over such minds, often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “For deadly fear can time outgo, and blanch at once the hair.”

249. “For deadly fear can time outgo, and blanch at once the hair.”

— Walter Scott

Walter Scott Quote: “Sensibility is nature’s celestial spring.”

250. “Sensibility is nature’s celestial spring.”

— Walter Scott

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