Sir Walter Scott was a Scottish historical novelist who was born on August 15, 1771.
He went to Royal High School and started reading various genres. Here, we are giving you 101 Sir Walter Scott quotes that are famous and fascinating and will inspire and motivate you not to give up.
Famous Sir Walter Scott Quotes
Here is some famous Sir Walter Scott Quotes with Scott's famous terms like 'such stupid bigotry' and the 'sweetest morsel'.
“The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.”
― 'The Lay Of The Last Minstrel'.
“We are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon”
― 'Ivanhoe'.
“I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom," he said to himself, "but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.”
― 'Ivanhoe'.
“Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.”
― 'Ivanhoe'.
“Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.”
― 'Marmion'.
“I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice.”
― 'Ivanhoe'.
“Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.”
― 'Ivanhoe'.
“Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.”
― 'Rob Roy'.
"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."
― 'The Fair Maid Of Perth'.
"He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit."
― 'Count Robert Of Paris'.
"Look back, and smile on perils past!"
― 'Kenilworth'.
"Now, it is well known, that a man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach either of real good breeding or of good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute point of fashionable etiquette."
― 'The Pirate'.
Inspiring Sir Walter Scott Quotes
This inspiring Sir Walter Scott quotes about working hard deserves praise. See how inspiration from the mere working mason comes through these Sir Walter Scott quotes.
“Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.”
― 'Rob Roy'.
“In the wide pile, by others heeded not,
Hers was one sacred solitary spot,
Whose gloomy aisles and bending shelves contain
For moral hunger food, and cures for moral pain.”
― 'Rob Roy'.
“My hope, my heaven, my trust must be,
My gentle guide, in following thee.”
― 'The Lady Of The Lake'.
“There is no better antidote against entertaining too high an opinion of others than having an excellent one of ourselves at the very same time.”
― 'Waverley'.
“No word of commiseration can make a burden feel one feather's weight lighter to the slave who must carry it.”
― 'Rob Roy'.
"War's a fearsome thing. They'll be cunning that catches me at this wark again."
- 'Old Mortality'.
“Trade has all the fascination of gambling without its moral guilt.”
― 'Rob Roy'.
“so wondrous wild, the whole might seem
the scenery of a fairy dream.”
― 'The Lady Of The Lake'.
“Hospitality to the exile, and broken bones to the tyrant.”
― 'Waverley'.
“How nearly can what we most despise and hate, approach in outward manner to that which we most venerate!”
― 'Rob Roy'.
“Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Morn of toil nor night of waking.”
― 'The Lady Of The Lake'.
“Nothing perhaps increases by indulgence more than a desultory habit of reading, especially under such opportunities of gratifying it.”
― 'Waverley'.
“And ne er did Grecian chisel trace A Nymph, a naiad or a grace Of finer form or lovelier face.......”
― 'The Lady Of The Lake'.
“I am the very child of caprice and folly.”
― 'Waverley'.
“Simplicity may be improved, but pride and conceit never. Well,”
― 'Waverley'.
“A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.”
― 'The Vison Of Don Roderick'.
“O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!”
― 'The Field Of Waterloo'.
“Look back, and smile on perils past.”
- 'The Black Dwarf'.
“Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.”
― 'The Chase'.
“The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.”
― 'Roy Boy'.
“Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.”
― 'The Pirate'.
“Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.”
― 'The Abbot'.
“For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.”
― 'Kenilworth'.
“He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.”
― 'Guy Mannering'.
“Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.”
― 'Old Mortality'.
“To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.”
― 'Marmion'.
“War is the only game in which both sides lose”.
― 'The Lady Of The Lake'.
“Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.”
― 'Glenfinals'.
“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.”
― 'The Fair Maid Of Perth'.
“November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.”
― 'Woodstock'.
“Marry in haste, repent at leisure.”
― 'Castle Dangerous'.
“If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.”
― 'The Highland Widow'.
“Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!”
― 'The Talisman'.
“One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.”
― 'The Antiquary'.
“One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.”
― 'The Pirate'.
“Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace o wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.”
- 'The Black Dwarf'.
“Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.”
― 'The Highland Widow'
“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”
― 'The Siege of Malta'.
“Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.”
― 'The Two Drovers'.
“Success – keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.”
- 'The Black Dwarf'.
“Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.”
― 'The Pirate'.
“Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.”
― 'The Abbot'.
“Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges”
― 'Castle Dangerous'.
“Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.”
― 'The Chase'.
“I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.”
― 'The Lord Of The Isles'.
“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.”
― 'Glenfinals'.
“As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.”
― 'Rokeby'.
(Sir Walter Scott's Romanticism is a legacy in English literature.)
Sir Walter Scott Quotes About Literature
This Sir Walter Scott Quotes about literature is the silver link to body and soul. Learn about your own education and its importance through these literature quotes.
"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."
― 'Woodstock'.
"Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow."
― 'The Pirate'.
"Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities."
- 'The Black Dwarf'.
"I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!"
― 'The Abbot'.
"And please return it. You may think this a strange request, but I find that although my friends are poor arithmeticians, they are nearly all of them good bookkeepers."
― 'A Legend Of Montrose'.
"I have sought but a kindred spirit to share it, and I have found such in thee."
― 'The Monastery'.
"One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior."
― 'The Abbot'.
"When true friends meet in adverse hour; 'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between."
- 'The Black Dwarf'.
"My hope, my heaven, my trust must be, My gentle guide, in following thee."
― 'The Antiquary'.
"The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored , and unsung."
― 'The Pirate'.
"In the wide pile, by others heeded not, Hers was one sacred solitary spot, Whose gloomy aisles and bending shelves contain For moral hunger food, and cures for moral pain."
― 'Castle Dangerous'.
"No word of commiseration can make a burden feel one feather's weight lighter to the slave who must carry it."
― 'The Chase'.
"A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year."
― 'Roy Boy'.
"Heap on more wood! - the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still."
"O, the tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive."
― 'Guy Mannering'.
Fascinating Sir Walter Scott Quotes
Find out some fascinating Sir Walter Scott quotes to learn about difficulties and adversity here. Sir Walter Scott deserves praise for his quotes on how a hard feeling can become the sweetest morsel.
"Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd From wandering on a foreign strand!
If such there breathe, go mark him well; For him no Minstrel raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim."
“I should be rather like the wild hawk, who, barred the free exercise of his soar through heaven, will dash himself to pieces against the bars of his cage.”
― 'Rob Roy'.
"The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?"
― 'The Pirate'.
"We are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon."
― 'Castle Dangerous'.
"Each age has deemed the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer."
― 'The Lord Of The Isles'.
“Everything is possible for him who possesses courage and activity….and to the timid and hesitating everything is impossible, because it seems so.”
― 'Rob Roy'.
"Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never."
― 'The Chase'.
"Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening."
― 'Marmion'.
“I did not myself set a high estimation on wealth, and had the affectation of most young men of lively imagination, who suppose that they can better dispense with the possession of money, than resign their time and faculties to the labour necessary to acquire it.”
― 'Rob Roy'.
"I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom," he said to himself, "but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it."
― 'Woodstock'.
Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!
― 'Rokeby'.
“The features of Rashleigh were such, as, having looked upon, we in vain wish to banish from our memory, to which they recur as objects of painful curiosity, although we dwell upon them with a feeling of dislike, and even of disgust.”
― 'Rob Roy'.
"I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice."
― 'The Pirate'.
“But there was in these eyes an expression of art and design, and, on provocation, a ferocity tempered by caution,”
― 'Rob Roy'.
“I will never sell my liberty for gold.”
― 'Rob Roy'.
"Love will subsist on wonderfully little hope but not altogether without it."
― 'Marmion'.
"Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land."
― 'The Pirate'.
"Heap on more wood! - the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still."
― 'The Talisman'.
"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."
― 'Marmion'.
"Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last."
― 'The Abbot'.
"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."
"To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light."
"True love's the gift which God hath given to man alone beneath the heaven. The silver link, the silver tie, which heart to heart, and mind to mind, in body and in soul can bind."
"When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone."
"Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love."
"If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors."
"Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness."
- 'The Black Dwarf'.
"We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt."
- 'Letters Of Demonology And Witchcraft'.
