Quotes
Quotes - Scott
Fat, fair, and forty.
"Lambe them, lads! lambe them!" a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked on the head by the rabble in Charles the First's time.
Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.
The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above; For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
The play bill which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.
To have one's individuality completely ignored is like being pushed quite out of life--like being blown out as one blows out a light.
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
Art thou a friend to Roderick?
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
criminal, n. A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
It is possible that for a Jew nothing more was required than the assurance that his sins were 'remitted', 'blotted out'; he might thereafter feel himself automatically restored to the relation of favour on God's part and confidence on his own, which was the hereditary prerogative of his people. But it was different with those who could claim no such prerogative, and with those Jews who had become uneasy as to the grounds of such a relation and their validityâin a word, with any who had been led by conscience to take a deeper view of the consequences of sin. So long as these were found mainly in punishment, suffering, judgment, so long 'remission of sins'âletting off the consequencesâmight suffice. But when it was recognized that sin had a far more serious consequence in alienation from God, the severing of the fellowship between God and His children, then Justification... ceased to be sufficient. 'Forgiveness' took on a deeper meaning; it connoted restoration of the fellowship, the establishment or reestablishment of a relation which could be described on the one side as fatherly, on the other as filial.
England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. 'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
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.
Death--the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.
Death, the last sleep? No the final awakening.
Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!
It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent.
Comment is free but facts are sacred.
Comment is free but facts are sacred.
Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins, Pity and woe! for such a mind Is soft contemplative, and kind.
