I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.

- Walter Scott

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

- Walter Scott

Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.

- Walter Scott

Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.

- Walter Scott

Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.

- Walter Scott

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.

- Walter Scott

War is the only game in which both sides lose.

- Walter Scott

From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.

- Walter Scott

Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.

- Walter Scott