Walter Scott citátov

„Revenge is the sweetest morsel to the mouth, that ever was cooked in hell.“

—  Walter Scott

The Heart of Midlothian', Ch. 30 (1818).
Zdroj: The Heart of Mid-Lothian

„All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.“

—  Walter Scott

Letter to J. G. Lockhart (c. 16 June 1830), in H. J. C. Grierson (ed.), Letters of Sir Walter Scott, Vol. II (1936), as reported in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1999), p. 652

„O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!“

—  Walter Scott, Marmion

Canto VI, st. 17.
Varianta: Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive
Zdroj: Marmion (1808)

„The will to do, the soul to dare“

—  Walter Scott

Canto I, stanza 21.
The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)
Kontext: On his bold visage middle age
Had slightly pressed its signet sage,
Yet had not quenched the open truth
And fiery vehemence of youth;
Forward and frolic glee was there,
The will to do, the soul to dare,
The sparkling glance, soon blown to fire,
Of hasty love or headlong ire.

„True love's the gift which God has given
To man alone beneath the heaven“

—  Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel

Canto V, stanza 13.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
Kontext: True love's the gift which God has given
To man alone beneath the heaven:
It is not fantasy's hot fire,
Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly;
It liveth not in fierce desire,
With dead desire it doth not die;
It is the secret sympathy,
The silver link, the silken tie,
Which heart to heart, and mind to mind
In body and in soul can bind.

„Time will rust the sharpest sword,
Time will consume the strongest cord“

—  Walter Scott, Harold the Dauntless

Harold the Dauntless (1817), Canto I, st. 4.
Kontext: Time will rust the sharpest sword,
Time will consume the strongest cord;
That which molders hemp and steel,
Mortal arm and nerve must feel.

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

—  Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel

Canto III, stanza 2.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
Kontext: In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed;
In war, he mounts the warrior's steed;
In halls, in gay attire is seen;
In hamlets, dances on the green.
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove,
And men below, and saints above;
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

„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, kniha Ivanhoe

Zdroj: Ivanhoe (1819), Ch. 33, The Black Knight speaking to Locksley.

„Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.“

—  Walter Scott

„Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.“

—  Walter Scott

„Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.“

—  Walter Scott

„Each age has deemed the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer.“

—  Walter Scott

„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!“

—  Walter Scott

„We are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon“

—  Walter Scott, kniha Ivanhoe

Zdroj: 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.“

—  Walter Scott, kniha Ivanhoe

Zdroj: Ivanhoe

„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?“

—  Walter Scott

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

—  Walter Scott, kniha Ivanhoe

Zdroj: Ivanhoe

„Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.“

—  Walter Scott, kniha Ivanhoe

Zdroj: Ivanhoe

„Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!“

—  Walter Scott