Frases de Walter Scott

“Acontece às vezes que uma flecha lançada ao acaso atinge o alvo que o arqueiro não queria; muitas vezes uma palavra pronunciada sem desígnio lisonjeia ou magoa um coração infeliz dividido entre o prazer e o medo.”

“O amor e a razão são dois viajantes, que nunca vivem juntos na mesma hospedaria: quando um chega, parte o outro.”

“Ceder à injustiça é animar os outros a praticá-la.”

“Todos os homens que foram valiosos em alguma coisa puseram a ênfase na sua própria educação.”

“O êxito obtém-se mantendo a mente desperta e o desejo adormecido.”

“Em obséquios de pouca monta, quem aceita pratica um ato de tanta urbanidade como quem oferece.”

“A vingança é o manjar mais delicioso, condimentado no Inferno.”

“Você ama a vida? Não desperdice então o tempo, pois é dele que se compõe a vida.”

“Para o êxito, a atitude é tão importante como a capacidade.”

“O encontro de dois verdadeiros amigos numa hora adversa parece-se com a visão de um raio de sol durante um aguaceiro. Um caminho claro que apenas se divisa entre as cerradas nuvens escuras.”

“Construímos estátuas de neve e choramos ao ver que derretem.”

“Aos tímidos e aos indecisos, tudo se torna impossível, porque assim lhes parece.”

“A discrição é a perfeição da razão e um guia para todas as obrigações da vida.”

“Muito embora percamos todos os nossos bens, conservemos intacta a honra.”

“O amor-próprio é o maior de todos os aduladores.”

“O desejo para fazer, a alma para ousar.”

“Se guardares uma coisa durante sete anos, certamente lhe encontrarás alguma utilidade.”

“Descansar demasiado é oxidar-se.”

“De todos os vícios, o da bebida é o mais incompatível com a grandeza.”

“Um jantar lubrifica os negócios.”

“Olha para trás e ri-te dos perigos passados.”

“For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.”

“The rose is fairest when 't is budding new,
And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew,
And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.”

“Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love.”

“Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.”

“Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.”

“Revenge is the sweetest morsel to the mouth, that ever was cooked in hell.”

“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”

“O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!”

“The will to do, the soul to dare”

“True love's the gift which God has given
To man alone beneath the heaven”

“Time will rust the sharpest sword,
Time will consume the strongest cord”

“Each age has deemed the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer.”

“Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.”

“We are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon”

“I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom," he said to himself, "but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.”

“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?”

“I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice”

“Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.”

“We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.”

“Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!”

“A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.”

“Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be ay sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye're sleeping.”

“There's a gude time coming.”

“Art thou a friend to Roderick?”

“He’s expected at noon, and no wight till he comes
May profane the great chair, or the porridge of plums;
For the best of the cheer, and the seat by the fire,
Is the undenied right of the Barefooted Friar.”

“Now I protest to thee, gentle reader, that I entirely dissent from Francisco de Ubeda in this matter, and hold it the most useful quality of my pen, that it can speedily change from grave to gay, and from description and dialogue to narrative and character. So that, if my quill display no other propertoies of its mothergoose than her mutability, truly I shall be well pleased; and I conceive that you, my worthy friend, will have no occasion for discontent. From the jargon, therefore, of the Highland gillies, I pass to the character of their Chief. It is an important examination, and therefore, like Dogberry, we must spare no wisdom.”

“But with the morning cool reflection came.”

“So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war,
There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.”

“O! many a shaft at random sent
Finds mark the archer little meant!
And many a word, at random spoken,
May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!”