Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
Baronet Scott
Biographer
Historian
Judge
Lawyer
Linguist
Literary Critic
Musicologist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Poet Lawyer
Translator
Edinburgh
Scotland
Walter Skott
Jedediah Cleishbotham
Laurence Templeton
Somnambulus
Malachi Malagrowther
Sir Walter Scott
Bart.
Sir Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott
1st Baronet
Great Magician
The Great Unknown
Would
Wise
Men
Teach
Heard
Talk
Freedom
Wish
Use
Blessings
Make
Blessing

More quotes by Walter Scott

Image
Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.
Walter Scott
Image
It was in the beginning of the month of November, 17--, when a young English gentleman, who had just left the university of Oxford, made use of the liberty afforded him, to visit some parts of the north of England and curiosity extended his tour into the adjacent frontier of the sister country.
Walter Scott
Image
The time which passes over our heads so imperceptibly makes the same gradual change in habits, manners and character, as in personal appearance. At the revolution of every five years we find ourselves another and yet the same--there is a change of views, and no less of the light in which we regard them a change of motives as well as of action.
Walter Scott
Image
Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die.
Walter Scott
Image
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
Walter Scott
Image
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
Walter Scott
Image
He hath a share of man's intelligence, but no share of man's falsehood.
Walter Scott
Image
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
Walter Scott
Image
Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
Walter Scott
Image
Literature is a great staff, but a very sorry crutch.
Walter Scott
Image
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
Image
Art thou a friend to Roderick?
Walter Scott
Image
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
Walter Scott
Image
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
Walter Scott
Image
Lambe them, lads! lambe them! a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked on the head by the rabble in Charles the First's time.
Walter Scott
Image
In the name of God! said Gurth, how came they prisoners? and to whom? Our master was too ready to fight, said the Jester, and Athelstane was not ready enough, and no other person was ready at all.
Walter Scott
Image
Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
Walter Scott
Image
When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
Walter Scott
Image
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
Image
Woman's faith and woman's trust, Write the characters in dust.
Walter Scott