28 Quotes by Sir Scott

You have power, rank, command, influence; we have wealth, the source both of our strength and weakness . . .

Tis plain that there is not in nature a point of stability to be found: everything either ascends or declines. When wars are ended abroad, sedition begins at home, and when men are freed from fighting for necessity, they quarrel through ambition.

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.

'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.

Better that they had ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn

Better ride safe in the dark, says the proverb, than in the daylight with a cut-throat at your elbow

Court not the critic's smile nor dread his frown

Credit is like a looking - glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clean again; but if once cracked can never be repaired

A simple race! they waste their toil For the vain tribute of a smile