Walter Scott Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• But woe awaits a country when She sees the tears of bearded men.

  Walter Scott

  Country, Men, Tears

  Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott (1841). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart”, p.123

• It was in the beginning of the month of November, 17--, when a young English gentleman, who had just left the university of Oxford, made use of the liberty afforded him, to visit some parts of the north of England; and curiosity extended his tour into the adjacent frontier of the sister country.

  Walter Scott

  Country, Book, Oxford

  Sir Walter Scott (1855). “The Waverley Novels: In Twelve Volumes, Printed from the Latest English Editions, Embracing the Author's Last Corrections, Prefaces, and Notes”, p.327

• My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.

  Walter Scott

  Country, Names, Feet

  Walter Scott (1995). “Rob Roy”, p.320, Wordsworth Editions

• Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand!

  Walter Scott

  Country, Hands, Land

  'The Lay of the Last Minstrel' (1805) canto 6, st. 1

• Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater poverty of human invention than we would have expected, there is also a sort of wild fairy interest in them, which makes me think them fully better adapted to awaken the imagination and soften the heart of childhood than the good-boy stories which have been in later years composed for them.

  Walter Scott

  Country, Heart, Boys

• Stood for his country's glory fast, And nailed her colors to the mast!

  Walter Scott

  Country, Color, Glory

  Sir Walter Scott (1868). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart”, p.123

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