44 Quotes by Sir Walter Scott

Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.

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?

He that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.

Thou are boot for many a bruise, And healest many a wound; In our Lady's blessed name,I take thee from the ground.

Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.

Look back, and smile at perils past.

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

O, what a tangled web we weave; When first we practice to deceive!

The faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.