Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
WALTER SCOTTRevenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
WALTER SCOTTWe are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
WALTER SCOTTCats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
WALTER SCOTTI 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 SCOTTFortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
WALTER SCOTTFor success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
WALTER SCOTTDo not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
WALTER SCOTTTo the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
WALTER SCOTTEach age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
WALTER SCOTTI will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
WALTER SCOTTSilence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
WALTER SCOTTThe half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
WALTER SCOTTA glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
WALTER SCOTTHope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
WALTER SCOTTThere never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
WALTER SCOTTHeaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
WALTER SCOTT