Sir Walter Scott Quotes

Sir Walter Scott Quotes

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Christmas Quotes from Literature

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas at my house.  The tree is almost decorated.  We’re sending Christmas cards out on Friday and the shopping is progressing nicely.   All of this has put me in the holiday spirit.  So

13 Sir Walter Scott Quotes

"You may bribe a soldier to slay a man with his sword, or a witness to take life by false accusation; but you cannot make a hound tear his benefactor." ~ The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott "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." ~ The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott That of all the propensities which teach mankind to torment themselves, that of causeless fear is the most irritating, busy, painful, and pitiable. ~ Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott But with the morning cool repentance came. ~ Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth,
When thought is speech, and speech is truth. ~ Marmion by Sir Walter Scott Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive! ~ Marmion by Sir Walter Scott Heap on more wood!--the wind is chill;
But let it whistle as it will,
We'll keep our Christmas merry still. ~ Marmion by Sir Walter Scott And come he slow, or come he fast,
It is but Death who comes at last. ~ Marmion by Sir Walter Scott "Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life." ~ Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott "Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword." ~ Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott

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