black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.

Walter Scott

What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.
WALTER SCOTT

Mindset People Reality Strange
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
WALTER SCOTT

Break Law Myself Word
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
WALTER SCOTT

Silence Talk
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
WALTER SCOTT

Ambition Deep Man Ruin
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
WALTER SCOTT

Courage Death
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
WALTER SCOTT

Change Nature Season Sky
Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
WALTER SCOTT

Freedom Man Myself Yourself
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
WALTER SCOTT

Feeling Heaven Mortal
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
WALTER SCOTT

Deep Evil Late
When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
WALTER SCOTT

Darkness Friendship Hard Time True
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
WALTER SCOTT

Heart Man Poor Religion
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
WALTER SCOTT

Animal Man Yourself
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
WALTER SCOTT

Deep Game Lose War
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
WALTER SCOTT

Heaven Love Man
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
WALTER SCOTT

Bright Fear Hope
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
WALTER SCOTT

Ability Attitude Equality Important Success

Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Walter Scott Quotes