Quote

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.

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
Animal
Almighty
Pleasure
Pleasures
Nature
Incapable
Toils
Hath
Recollect
Companion
Canine
Noble
Invested
Dog
Deceit
Gave
Toil

More quotes by Walter Scott

Image
Spur not an unbroken horse put not your plowshare too deep into new land.
Walter Scott
Image
A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
Walter Scott
Image
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
Walter Scott
Image
Every hour has its end.
Walter Scott
Image
We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.
Walter Scott
Image
Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel.
Walter Scott
Image
For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of Lochinvar.
Walter Scott
Image
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
Walter Scott
Image
Here is neither want of appetite nor mouths, Pray heaven we be not scant of meat or mirth.
Walter Scott
Image
The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed!
Walter Scott
Image
What skilful limner e'er would choose To paint the rainbow's varying hues, Unless to mortal it were given To dip his brush in dyes of heaven?
Walter Scott
Image
The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
Walter Scott
Image
Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Walter Scott
Image
There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.
Walter Scott
Image
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
Walter Scott
Image
See yonder rock from which the fountain gushes is it less compact of adamant, though waters flow from it? Firm hearts have moister eyes.
Walter Scott
Image
I cannot tell how the truth may be I say the tale as it was said to me.
Walter Scott
Image
Oh, poverty parts good company.
Walter Scott
Image
Her blue eyes sought the west afar, For lovers love the western star.
Walter Scott
Image
I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time?
Walter Scott