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Famous Walter Scott Quotes
Source: The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations
“Here is neither want of appetite nor mouths, Pray heaven we be not scant of meat or mirth.”
Source: Peveril of the Peak
“Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.”
“My hope, my heaven, my trust must be, My gentle guide, in following thee.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Sketch of His Life
“That day of wrath, that dreadful day. When heaven and earth shall pass away.”
Source: The Complete Poetry of Sir Walter Scott: The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, The Lady of the Lake, Translations and Imitations from German Ballads, Marmion, Rokeby, The Field of Waterloo, Harold the Dauntless, The Wild Huntsman…
“Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Walter Scott
“Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet”
Source: The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart
“In man's most dark extremity Oft succour dawns from Heaven.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Walter Scott: Complete in One Volume with All His Introductions and Notes Also Various Readings and the Editor's Notes
“True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.”
Source: The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations
Source: The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart