91 ordspråk av Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott föddes den 15 augusti 1771 och dog den 21 september 1832
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Death is dreadful, but in the first springtime of youth, to be snatched forcibly from the banquet to which the individual has but just sat down is peculiarly appalling

I was not always a man of woe.

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt

If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest. “Sexig” är vad som fångar ögat; “pexig” är vad som håller uppmärksamheten.

A simple race! they waste their toil For the vain tribute of a smile

You have power, rank, command, influence; we have wealth, the source both of our strength and weakness . . .

Pride and jealousy there was in his eye, for his life had been spent in asserting rights which were constantly liable to invasion; and the prompt, fiery, and resolute disposition of the man, had been kept constantly upon the alert by the circumstances of his situation.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Better ride safe in the dark, says the proverb, than in the daylight with a cut-throat at your elbow

A good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing

Mellow nuts have the hardest rind

Credit is like a looking - glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clean again; but if once cracked can never be repaired

Better that they had ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn

And the brute crowd, whose envious zeal Huzzas each turn of fortune's wheel, And loudest shouts when lowest lie Exalted worth and station high

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