522 Quotes by Walter Scott

What skilful limner e'er would choose To paint the rainbow's varying hues, Unless to mortal it were given To dip his brush in dyes of heaven?

Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, morn of toil, nor night of waking.

Covetousness bursts the sack and spills the grain.

When Israel, of the Lord belov'd, Out of the land of bondage came, Her fathers' God before her mov'd, An awful guide in smoke and flame.

Stood for his country's glory fast, And nailed her colors to the mast!

The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.

The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.

Oh, on that day, that wrathful day, When man to judgment wakes front clay, Be Thou, O Christ, the sinner's stay, Though heaven and earth shall pass away.

Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides.