Quotes by Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott

British writer and poet

Lived from: 1771 - 1832

Category: Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 15 august 1771 Died: 21 september 1832

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  • Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.
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  • One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
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  • Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
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  • Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim. One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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  • Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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  • The faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
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  • 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.
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  • The will to do, the soul to dare.
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  • The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
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  • There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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  • To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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  • We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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  • When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
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