Best Quotes by Walter Scott (Top 10)

  1. Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
  2. O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
  3. All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
  4. Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
  5. Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
  6. 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, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
  7. The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
  8. One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name
  9. To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
  10. Look back, and smile on perils past.

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