Walter Scott Quotes & Sayings
34 most famous Walter Scott quotes and sayings (novelist). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“Look back, and smile on perils past.”
“For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.”
“Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.”
“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”
“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.”
“What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.”
“To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.”
“O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!”
“Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.”
“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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