Quotes By Author: walter scott

“Sleep, like other earthly blessings, is niggard of its favours when most courted.”

“My hope, my heaven, my trust must be,My gentle guide, in following thee.”

“I pretend not to be a champion of that same naked virtue called truth, to the very outrance. I can consent that her charms be hidden with a veil, were it but for decency’s sake.”

“Oh, what a tangled web we weave…when first we practice to deceive.”