Sir Walter Scott Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

107 Famous Quotes by Sir Walter Scott
“Consider an enemy may become a friend.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
“Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
“Crime requires further crime to conceal it.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
“Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
“Do what you should, not what you may.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
“Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
“Every cock fights best on his own dunghill.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
“Everything in art is but a copy of nature.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
“Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
“Fidelity, purchased with money, money can destroy.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
“Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
“Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
“He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
“He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
“He is most powerful who governs himself.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
“He makes a great row but does nothing.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
“He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
“He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
“He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
“He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
“He who has wronged you is either stronger or weaker than yourself: be he weaker, spare him; be he stronger, then spare yourself.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
“He who profits by a crime, commits it.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
“He who repents of his fault is almost guiltless.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
“He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
“He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)