Sir Walter Scott Quotes | Quotes by Sir Walter Scott

Oh, what tangled webs we weave, When we first practice to deceive.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Too much rest is rust.
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive
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Oh, the tangled webs we weave When we practice to deceive.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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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.
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And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but death who comes at last.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit.
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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.
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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.
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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
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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
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But with morning cool repentance came.
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Is death the last step? No, it is the final awakening.
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Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!
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Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but death who comes at last.
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But search the land of living men, Wher wilst thou find their like again.
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To all, to each, a fair good night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Death -- the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.
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To all, to each, a fair good night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
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