„Revenge is the sweetest morsel to the mouth, that ever was cooked in hell.“
— Walter Scott, The Heart of Mid-Lothian
The Heart of Midlothian', Ch. 30 (1818).
Quelle: The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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Walter Scott
Geburtstag: 15. August 1771
Todesdatum: 21. September 1832
Sir Walter Scott, 1. Baronet FRSE war ein schottischer Dichter, Schriftsteller, Verleger und Literaturkritiker. Er war einer der – nicht nur in Europa – meistgelesenen Autoren seiner Zeit und gilt traditionell als Begründer des Geschichtsromans. Viele seiner historischen Romane sind Klassiker geworden und haben als Vorlage für zahlreiche Schauspiele, Opern und Filme gedient.
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„All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.“
Letter to J. G. Lockhart (c. 16 June 1830), in H. J. C. Grierson (ed.), Letters of Sir Walter Scott, Vol. II (1936), as reported in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1999), p. 652
„O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!“
— Walter Scott, Marmion
Canto VI, st. 17.
Variante: Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive
Quelle: Marmion (1808)
„True love's the gift which God has given
To man alone beneath the heaven“
— Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Canto V, stanza 13.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
Kontext: True love's the gift which God has given
To man alone beneath the heaven:
It is not fantasy's hot fire,
Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly;
It liveth not in fierce desire,
With dead desire it doth not die;
It is the secret sympathy,
The silver link, the silken tie,
Which heart to heart, and mind to mind
In body and in soul can bind.
„The will to do, the soul to dare“
Canto I, stanza 21.
The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)
Kontext: On his bold visage middle age
Had slightly pressed its signet sage,
Yet had not quenched the open truth
And fiery vehemence of youth;
Forward and frolic glee was there,
The will to do, the soul to dare,
The sparkling glance, soon blown to fire,
Of hasty love or headlong ire.
„Time will rust the sharpest sword,
Time will consume the strongest cord“
— Walter Scott, Harold the Dauntless
Harold the Dauntless (1817), Canto I, st. 4.
Kontext: Time will rust the sharpest sword,
Time will consume the strongest cord;
That which molders hemp and steel,
Mortal arm and nerve must feel.
„Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love.“
— Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Canto III, stanza 2.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
Kontext: In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed;
In war, he mounts the warrior's steed;
In halls, in gay attire is seen;
In hamlets, dances on the green.
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove,
And men below, and saints above;
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
„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.“
— Walter Scott, buch Ivanhoe
Quelle: Ivanhoe (1819), Ch. 33, The Black Knight speaking to Locksley.
„We are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon“
— Walter Scott, buch Ivanhoe
Quelle: Ivanhoe
