Quote

Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference.

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
Indifference
Storm
Polar
Affection
Withstand
Differences
Storms
Long
Frost
Vigor
Severe

More quotes by Walter Scott

Image
For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.
Walter Scott
Image
Charge, Chester, charge! on, Stanley, on! Were the last words of Marmion.
Walter Scott
Image
I'll dream no more--by mainly mind Not even in sleep is well resigned. My midnight orisons said o'er, I'll turn to rest and dream no more.
Walter Scott
Image
Chess is a sad waste of brains.
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
Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Walter Scott
Image
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
Walter Scott
Image
Vengeance to God alone belongs But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame!
Walter Scott
Image
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
Walter Scott
Image
A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.
Walter Scott
Image
Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!
Walter Scott
Image
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
Walter Scott
Image
And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.
Walter Scott
Image
Blud's thicker than water.
Walter Scott
Image
It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks and solemn faces.
Walter Scott
Image
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
Walter Scott
Image
The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.
Walter Scott
Image
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
Walter Scott
Image
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
Image
And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
Walter Scott