Вальтер Скотт цитаты

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„Если люди не научатся помогать друг другу, то род человеческий исчезнет с лица земли.“

„Мы лепим своих кумиров из снега и плачем, когда они тают.“

„Когда мы вспоминаем о друзьях, которых уже нет в живых, мы чувствуем себя вдвойне одинокими.“

„Ты не должен сердиться на друга, который, желая тебе добра, заставит тебя очнуться от сладких грез, если бы даже он сделал это несколько сурово и грубо.“

„Золото убило больше душ, чем железо — тел.“

„Сплоченность людей — нерушимая крепость.“

„Невежество и суеверие — вот единственные истинные несчастья.“

„Не ведаем какую сеть себе плетем, единожды солгав.“

„Длинные языки сеют вражду между соседями и между народами.“

„Из всех пороков пьянство более других несовместимо с величием духа.“

„В шторм добирайся до любого порта.“

„Кровь гуще воды.“

„Не будь расточителен, не будешь нуждаться.“

„Беда тех, кто пишет быстро, состоит в том, что они не могут писать кратко.“

„Обеты дев, — сказал старик,“

„Время и прилив никого не ждут.“

„Очевидно, к этому убеждению пришёл и старик, который, разглядывая зáмок, пробормотал про себя: «lapis offensionis et petra scandali», а затем, повернувшись к Хэлберту Глендинингу, прибавил: — мы можем обратить к этой твердыне слова, сказанные королём Иаковом о другой крепости неподалёку, — что тот, кто её построил, был в глубине души настоящим разбойником.“

„Ветер все еще вздымал волны, как дрожжи вздымают тесто.“

“When, musing on companions gone,
We doubly feel ourselves alone.”

“So shall he strive, in changeful hue,
Field, feast, and combat, to renew,
And loves, and arms, and harpers' glee,
And all the pomp of chivalry.”

“Such is the custom of Branksome Hall.”

“Ah, County Guy, the hour is nigh,
The sun has left the lea.
The orange flower perfumes the bower,
The breeze is on the sea.”

“I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.”

“And better had they ne'er been born,
Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.”

“[Romeo … transfers his affections from Rosalind to Juliet] 'A lover, my dear Lady Betty,' said Flora, 'may, I conceive, persevere in his suit, under very discouraging circumstances. Affection can (now and then) withstand very severe storms of rigour, but not a long polar frost of downright indifference. Don't, even with your attractions, try the experiment upon any lover whose faith you value. Love will subsist on wonderfully little hope, but not altogether without it.”

“It's no fish ye're buying, it's men's lives.”

“A mother's pride, a father's joy.”

“"I'm no gaun to let naebody see the letter," sobbed the boy, "till I gie't to Mr. Lovel, for I am a faithfu' servant o' the office—if it werena for the powny."
"Very right, my little man," said Ochiltree, turning the reluctant pony's head towards Monkbarns; "but we'll guide him atween us." …
[They met Lovel on the way, ] and Davie, who insisted upon a literal execution of his commission by going on to Monkbarns, was with difficulty prevailed upon to surrender the packet to its proper owner, although he met him a mile nearer than the place he had been directed to. "But my minnie said, I maun be sure to get twenty shillings and five shillings for the postage, and ten shillings and sixpence for the express—there's the paper."
"Let me see—let me see," said Oldbuck, putting on his spectacles, and examining the crumpled copy of regulations to which Davie appealed. "Express, per man and horse, one day, not to exceed ten shillings and sixpence. One day? why, it's not an hour—Man and horse? why, 'tis a monkey on a starved cat!"”

“Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour of glorious life
Is worth an age without a name.”

“And come he slow, or come he fast,
It is but Death who comes at last.”

“The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.”

“Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.”

“Oh for a blast of that dread horn
On Fontarabian echoes borne!”

“Oh, Brignal banks are wild and fair,
And Greta woods are green,
And you may gather garlands there
Would grace a summer's queen.”

“Pax vobiscum will answer all queries. If you go or come, eat or drink, bless or ban, Pax vobiscum carries you through it all. It is as useful to a friar as a broom-stick to a witch, or a wand to a conjuror.”

“For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war,
Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.”

“"What remains?" cried Ivanhoe; "Glory, maiden, glory! which gilds our sepulchre and embalms our name."”

“Spur not an unbroken horse; put not your plowshare too deep into new land.”

“If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.”

“To all, to each, a fair good-night,
And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light!”

“Who o'er the herd would wish to reign,
Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain!
Vain as the leaf upon the stream,
And fickle as a changeful dream;
Fantastic as a woman's mood,
And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood.
Thou many-headed monster thing,
Oh who would wish to be thy king!”

“And darest thou then
To beard the lion in his den,
The Douglas in his hall?”

“You have power, rank, command, influence; we have wealth, the source both of our strength and weakness; the value of these toys, ten times multiplied, would not influence half so much as your slightest wish.”

“Where lives the man that has not tried
How mirth can into folly glide,
And folly into sin!”

“A light on Marmion’s visage spread,
And fired his glazing eye:
With dying hand, above his head,
He shook the fragment of his blade,
And shouted "Victory!-
Charge, Chester, charge! On, Stanley, on!"”

“The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.”

“There is a southern proverb—fine words butter no parsnips.”