Sir Walter Scott Browse All Authors Top 14 quotes by Sir Walter Scott To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed. Sir Walter Scott All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. Sir Walter Scott And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but death who comes at last. Sir Walter Scott Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above For love is heaven, and heaven is love. Sir Walter Scott O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive! Sir Walter Scott Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive Sir Walter Scott Our time is like our money; when we change a guinea the shillings escape as things of small account; when we break a day by idleness in the morning, the rest of the hours lose their importance in our eyes. Sir Walter Scott The will to do, the soul to dare. Sir 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 Sir Walter Scott Look back, and smile on perils past. Sir Walter Scott We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider everything as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart. Sir Walter Scott He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit. Sir Walter Scott Oh, what tangled webs we weave, When we first practice to deceive. Sir Walter Scott To all, to each, a fair good night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. Sir Walter Scott
