Walter Scott

Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel.

Walter Scott

Revenge is a feast for the gods!

Walter Scott

Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.

Walter Scott

Scots wear short patience and long daggers.

Walter Scott

Sensibility is nature’s celestial spring.

Walter Scott

Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, morn of toil, nor night of waking.

Walter Scott

So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like young Lochinvar.

Walter Scott

Still are the thoughts to memory dear.

Walter Scott

Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.

Walter Scott

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

Walter Scott