11 Inspiring Sir Walter Scott Quotes (Free List)

Sir Walter Scott quotes are thought-provoking, memorable and inspiring. From views on society and politics to thoughts on love and life, Sir Walter Scott has a lot to say. In this list we present the 11 best Sir Walter Scott quotes, in no particular order. Let yourself get inspired!

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Sir Walter Scott quotes

But search the land of living men Where wilt thou find their like again.

— Sir Walter Scott

Adversity is to me at least a tonic and a bracer.

— Sir Walter Scott

It is only when I dally with what I am about look back and aside instead of keeping my eyes straight forward that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.

— Sir Walter Scott

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

— Sir Walter Scott

The chain of friendship however bright does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.

— Sir Walter Scott

I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right but when I am a little in the wrong.

— Sir Walter Scott

It is only when I dally with what I am about look back and aside instead of keeping my eyes straight forward that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart. But the first broadside puts all to rights.

— Sir Walter Scott

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow man and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

— Sir Walter Scott

Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

— Sir Walter Scott

One hour of life crowded to the full with glorious action and filled with noble risks is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum.

— Sir Walter Scott

True love’s the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy’s hot fire Whose wishes soon as granted fly It liveth not in fierce desire.

— Sir Walter Scott

Adversity is like the period of the rain … cold comfortless unfriendly to man and to animal yet from that season have their birth the flower the fruit the date the rose and the pomegranate.

— Sir Walter Scott