Quote

In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster.

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
Lying
Town
Extended
Times
Pleasant
Merry
Beautiful
Towns
Covering
Part
Rivers
Valleys
Book
Ancient
Forest
England
River
Sheffield
Large
Hills
Watered
Greater
Forests
District

More quotes by Walter Scott

Image
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
Walter Scott
Image
Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
Walter Scott
Image
The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed!
Walter Scott
Image
Look back, and smile on perils past.
Walter Scott
Image
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
Walter Scott
Image
Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree it will be growing, Jock, when ye 're sleeping.
Walter Scott
Image
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
Image
And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.
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
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 rose is fairest when 't is budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew, And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.
Walter Scott
Image
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
Image
Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
Walter Scott
Image
When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.
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
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
Walter Scott
Image
It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.
Walter Scott
Image
The summer dawn's reflected hue To purple changed Lock Katrine blue, Mildly and soft the western breeze Just kiss'd the lake, just stirr'd the trees, And the pleased lake, like maiden coy, Trembled but dimpled not for joy.
Walter Scott
Image
Here is neither want of appetite nor mouths, Pray heaven we be not scant of meat or mirth.
Walter Scott
Image
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