Walter Scott citáty

„Kočky jsou velmi tajemné bytosti. V jejich mysli se odvíjejí věci, o kterých ani nemáme tušení.“

„Trochu stříbra zničilo víc duší než ostrý meč těl.“

„Stavíme sochy ze sněhu, a pak pláčeme, když tají.“

„Ó, jakou spletitou síť splétáme,
když se nejprve snažíme klamat!“

„Je to člověk, jenž má raději rychlá a nebezpečná opatření než bezpečný, ale pozvolný postup.“

“For 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.”

“The rose is fairest when 't is budding new,
And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew,
And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.”

“Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love.”

“Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.”

“Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.”

“Revenge is the sweetest morsel to the mouth, that ever was cooked in hell.”

“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”

“O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!”

“The will to do, the soul to dare”

“True love's the gift which God has given
To man alone beneath the heaven”

“Time will rust the sharpest sword,
Time will consume the strongest cord”

“Each age has deemed the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer.”

“Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.”

“We are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon”

“I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom," he said to himself, "but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.”

“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?”

“I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice”

“Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.”

“We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.”

“Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!”

“A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.”

“Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be ay sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye're sleeping.”

“There's a gude time coming.”

“Art thou a friend to Roderick?”

“He’s expected at noon, and no wight till he comes
May profane the great chair, or the porridge of plums;
For the best of the cheer, and the seat by the fire,
Is the undenied right of the Barefooted Friar.”

“Now I protest to thee, gentle reader, that I entirely dissent from Francisco de Ubeda in this matter, and hold it the most useful quality of my pen, that it can speedily change from grave to gay, and from description and dialogue to narrative and character. So that, if my quill display no other propertoies of its mothergoose than her mutability, truly I shall be well pleased; and I conceive that you, my worthy friend, will have no occasion for discontent. From the jargon, therefore, of the Highland gillies, I pass to the character of their Chief. It is an important examination, and therefore, like Dogberry, we must spare no wisdom.”

“But with the morning cool reflection came.”

“So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war,
There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.”

“O! many a shaft at random sent
Finds mark the archer little meant!
And many a word, at random spoken,
May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!”