Author: Walter Scott

Quotes

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

- Walter Scott

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

- Walter Scott

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

- Walter Scott

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

- Walter Scott

Look back, and smile on perils past.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

- Walter Scott

Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

- Walter Scott

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

- Walter Scott

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

- Walter Scott

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

- Walter Scott

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