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"26 Walter Scott Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 15 August 1771 Died: 21 September 1832 | Novelist | Poet |

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Camp Love Court Rule
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

Anything Education Had Men
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

Dreams Each Fair Light
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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Aged Board Child Father
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Above Below Camp
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

Climbs Fruit Gulf He
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
Ability Attitude Important Success
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Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
Asleep Awake Desire
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Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
Autumn Blossoms
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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!

Shaft Archer
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To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

Honour Nature
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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.

Afterwards Centuries
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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Miles Shadow
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What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.

Say Eyes
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

Farmer Barn Grain
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
Look Back
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

Business Capacities
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

Timid Impossible
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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.

Raise Invention Eyes
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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

Side Bolt
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

Vices Wine
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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.

Race Perish Power
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A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

Nails
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

Life Burden Finding That
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Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

Faces Charm Soon
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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
Architect He Himself History
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Walter Scott Quotes & Sayings