Sir Walter Scott Love Quotes

Eva knows I'm terra incognita and explores me unhurriedly, like you did. Because she's lean as a boy. Because her scent is almonds, meadow grass. Because if I smile at her ambition to be an Egyptologist, she kicks my shin under the table. Because she makes me think about something other than myself. Because even when serious she shines. Because she prefers travelogues to Sir Walter Scott, prefers Billy Mayerl to Mozart, and couldn't tell a C major from a sergeant major. Because I, only I, see her smile a fraction before it reaches her face. Because Emperor Robert is not a good man - his best part is commandeered by his unperformed music - but she gives me that rarest smile, anyway. Because we listened to nightjars. Because her laughter spurts through a blowhole in the top of her head and sprays all over the morning. Because a man like me has no business with this substance "beauty," yet here she is, in these soundproof chambers of my heart. ~ David Mitchell

Sixsmith,

Eva. Because her name is a synonym for temptation: what treads nearer to the core of man? Because her soul swims in her eyes. Because I dream of creeping through the velvet folds to her room, where I let myself in, hum her a tune so-so-so softly, she stands with her naked feet on mine, her ear to my heart, and we waltz like string puppets. After that kiss, she says, "Vous embrassez comme un poisson rouge!" and in moonlight mirrors we fall in love with our youth and beauty. Because all my life, sophisticated, idiotic women have taken it upon themselves to understand me, to cure me, but Eva knows I'm terra incognita and explores me unhurriedly, like you did. Because she's lean as a boy. Because her scent is almonds, meadow grass. Because if I smile at her ambition to be an Egyptologist, she kicks my shin under the table. Because she makes me think about something other than myself. Because even when serious she shines. Because she prefers travelogues to Sir Walter Scott, prefers Billy Mayerl to Mozart, and couldn't tell C major from a sergeant major. Because I, only I, see her smile a fraction before it reaches her face. Because Emperor Robert is not a good man - his best part is commandeered by his unperformed music - but she gives me that rarest smile, anyway. Because we listened to nightjars. Because her laughter spurts through a blowhole in the top of her head and sprays all over the morning. Because a man like me has no business with this substance "be ~ David Mitchell

Look back, and smile on perils past. ~ Sir Walter Scott

The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonored , and unsung.
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) ~ Walter Scott

I forgive you, Sir Knight," said Rowena, "as a Christian."
"That means," said Wamba, "that she does not forgive him at all. ~ Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott created rank & caste in the South and also reverence for and pride and pleasure in them. Life on the Mississippi
Don Quixote swept admiration for medieval chivalry-silliness out of existence. Ivanhoe restored it. Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi ~ Mark Twain

Her blue eyes sought the west afar,
For lovers love the western star. ~ Walter Scott

Ambition is no cure for love! ~ Walter Scott

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

I am the very child of caprice and folly. ~ Walter Scott

simplicity may be improved, but pride and conceit never. Well, ~ Walter Scott

Mr. Sampson, you forget the difference between Plato and Zenocrates. ~ Walter Scott

Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed! ~ Walter Scott

By profession an observer of tones and gestures, ~ Walter Scott

A fool's wild speech confounds the wise. ~ Walter Scott

Fools should not have chapping sticks'; that is, weapons of offence. ~ Walter Scott

Every hour has its end. ~ Walter Scott

cared for no rogues but their own, ~ Walter Scott

Trade has all the fascination of gambling without its moral guilt. ~ Walter Scott

Thus do men throw on fate the issue of their own wild passions. ~ Walter Scott

Hunger and fear are excellent casuists. ~ Walter Scott

Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. ~ Walter Scott

Ambition, policy, bravery, all far beyond their sphere, here learned the fate of mortals. ~ Walter Scott

We are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon ~ Walter Scott

Rebecca! she who could prefer death to dishonor must have a proud and powerful soul! ~ Walter Scott

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love. ~ Walter Scott

But there stands the sword of my ancestor Sir Richard Vernon, slain at Shrewsbury, and sorely slandered by a sad fellow called Will Shakspeare, whose Lancastrian partialities, and a certain knack at embodying them, has turned history upside down, or rather inside out. ~ Walter Scott

Far better was our homely diet, eaten in peace and liberty, than the luxurious dainties, the love of which hath delivered us as bondsmen to the foreign conqueror! ~ Walter Scott

Warriors! and where are warriors found, If not on martial Britain's ground? And who, when waked with note of fire, Love more than they the British lyre? ~ Walter Scott

It was Zenocrates, not Plato, who denied that pain was an evil. ~ Walter Scott

For deadly fear can time outgo, and blanch at once the hair. ~ Walter Scott

He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round. ~ Walter Scott

he was too proud a man to be a vain one. ~ Walter Scott

Are ye come light-handed, ye son of a toom whistle? ~ Walter Scott

All is possible for those who dare to die! ~ Walter Scott

He turn'd his charger as he spake, Upon the river shore, He gave his bridle reins a shake, Said, "Adieu for evermore, my love, And adieu for evermore." ~ Walter Scott

I was not always a man of woe. ~ Walter Scott

Welcome as the flowers in May. ~ Walter Scott

there are stratagems in law as well as war. ~ Walter Scott

True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes soon as granted fly; It liveth not in fierce desire. ~ Walter Scott

Oh, what a tangled web we weave ... when first we practice to deceive. ~ Walter Scott

The race of humankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. ~ Walter Scott

Sir Everard had never been himself a student, and, like his sister Miss Rachael Waverley, held the vulgar doctrine, that idleness is incompatible with reading of any kind, and that the mere tracing the alphabetical characters with the eye, is in itself a useful and meritorious task, without scrupulously considering what ideas or doctrines they may happen to convey. With ~ Walter Scott

My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor. ~ Walter Scott

Lawyer's anxiety about the fate of the most interesting cause has seldom spoiled either his sleep or digestion. ~ Walter Scott

Nothing perhaps increases by indulgence more than a desultory habit of reading, especially under such opportunities of gratifying it. ~ Walter Scott

The sickening pang of hope deferr'd. ~ Walter Scott

A sinful heart makes feeble hand. ~ Walter Scott

Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion. ~ Walter Scott

Art thou a friend to Roderick? ~ Walter Scott

Some touch of Nature's genial glow. ~ Walter Scott

Certainly," quoth Athelstane, "women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted. ~ Walter Scott

I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd. ~ Walter Scott

Time rolls his ceaseless course. ~ Walter Scott

Blud's thicker than water. ~ Walter Scott

Heap on more wood! - the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still. ~ Walter Scott

Still are the thoughts to memory dear. ~ Walter Scott

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land. ~ Walter Scott

Hurry no man's cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself ~ Walter Scott

Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief. ~ Walter Scott

A Christmas gambol oft could cheer
The poor man's heart through half the year. ~ Walter Scott

I have sought but a kindred spirit to share it, and I have found such in thee. ~ Walter Scott

As hope and fear alternate chase
Our course through life's uncertain race. ~ Walter Scott

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

To all, to each, a fair good-night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. ~ Walter Scott

In man's most dark extremity Oft succour dawns from Heaven. ~ Walter Scott

Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it. ~ Walter Scott

The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V. ~ Walter Scott

Love, to her ear, was but a name,
Combin'd with vanity and shame;
Her hopes, her fears, her joys, were all
Bounded within the cloister wall. ~ Walter Scott

Stood for his country's glory fast, And nailed her colors to the mast! ~ Walter Scott

What!" said Bois-Guilbert, "so soon?" "Ay," replied the preceptor, "trial moves rapidly on when the judge has determined the sentence beforehand. ~ Walter Scott

War is the only game in which both sides lose. ~ Walter Scott

Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause. ~ Walter Scott

Nothing is more the child of art than a garden. ~ Walter Scott

Great God! hast Thou given men Thine own image that it should be thus cruelly defaced by the hands of their brethren! ~ Walter Scott

Godfrey Bertram of Ellangowan succeeded to a long pedigree and a short rent-roll, like many lairds of that period. ~ Walter Scott

Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet ~ Walter Scott

When true friends meet in adverse hour; 'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between. ~ Walter Scott

Of all the train, none escaped except Wamba, who showed upon the occasion much more courage than those who pretended to greater sense. ~ Walter Scott

...[G]old is their god, and for riches will they pawn their lives as well as their lands. ~ Walter Scott

And ne er did Grecian chisel trace A Nymph, a naiad or a grace Of finer form or lovelier face ... ~ Walter Scott

Hail to the chief in triumph advances. ~ Walter Scott

Chess is a sad waste of brains. ~ Walter Scott

There is no better antidote against entertaining too high an opinion of others than having an excellent one of ourselves at the very same time. ~ Walter Scott

The abstract idea of a spirit certainly implies that it has neither substance, form, shape, voice, or anything which can render its presence visible or sensible to human faculties. ~ Walter Scott

Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference. ~ Walter Scott

Tell that to the marines - the sailors won't believe it. ~ Walter Scott

Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges ~ Walter Scott

Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last ~ Walter Scott

Come one, come all! this rock shall fly
From its firm base, as soon as I. ~ Walter Scott

Who, noteless as the race from which he sprung,
Saved others' names, but left his own unsung. ~ Walter Scott

Necessity
thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention. ~ Walter Scott

Mystery has great charms for womanhood. ~ Walter Scott

See yonder rock from which the fountain gushes; is it less compact of adamant, though waters flow from it? Firm hearts have moister eyes. ~ Walter Scott

Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of. ~ Walter Scott

Thy resolution may fluctuate on the wild and changeful billows of human opinion, but mine is anchored on the Rock of Ages. ~ Walter Scott

In civilised society law is the chimney through which all that smoke discharges itself that used to circulate through the whole house, ~ Walter Scott

The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me? ~ Walter Scott

And please return it. You may think this a strange request, but I find that although my friends are poor arithmeticians, they are nearly all of them good bookkeepers. ~ Walter Scott

Methinks I will not die quite happy without having seen something of that Rome of which I have read so much. ~ Walter Scott