Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like goodly vessels driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and so perish.
Walter Scott
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Driving
Goodly
Thou
Dashed
Instruments
Fatality
Blind
Vessels
Along
Perish
Like
Irresistible
Vessel
Storm
Hurries
More quotes by Walter Scott
Despite those titles, power, and pelf, 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, unhonor'd, and unsung.
Walter Scott
Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.
Walter Scott
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
Walter Scott
My dear, be a good man be virtuous be religious be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here. ...God bless you all.
Walter Scott
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
Walter Scott
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
Walter Scott
Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
Walter Scott
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
Walter Scott
Mellow nuts have the hardest rind.
Walter Scott
Oh, Brignall banks are wild and fair, And Greta woods are green, And you may gather garlands there Would grace a summer's queen.
Walter Scott
Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!
Walter Scott
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
Walter Scott
There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.
Walter Scott
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.
Walter Scott
For deadly fear can time outgo, and blanch at once the hair.
Walter Scott
Hurry no man's cattle you may come to own a donkey yourself
Walter Scott
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
For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of Lochinvar.
Walter Scott
A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
Walter Scott
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
Walter Scott