Famous Quotes by Sir Walter Scott

Below are famous quotes by Sir Walter Scott - Scottish author & novelist (1771 - 1832).

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit.

Oh, what tangled webs we weave, When we first practice to deceive.

The will to do, the soul to dare.

To all, to each, a fair good night,
And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

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.

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