Famous Quotes by Sir Walter Scott (31 Quotations)

Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.

Sir Walter Scott – [Ridicule]

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim. One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.

Sir Walter Scott – [Life and Living]

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

Sir Walter Scott – [Poetry and Poets]

The faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

Sir Walter Scott – [Faces]

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

Sir Walter Scott – [Aid and Assistance]

The will to do, the soul to dare.

Sir Walter Scott – [Courage]

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Sir Walter Scott – [Adversity]

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

Sir Walter Scott – [Excellence]

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

Sir Walter Scott – [Impossibility]

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

Sir Walter Scott – [Responsibility]

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.

Sir Walter Scott – [Loneliness]