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Ivanhoe quotes

Walter Scott

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“We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like goodly vessels driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and so perish.” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“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, Ivanhoe
“Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“Man dies, but glory lives!” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth, but never in thy heart nor in thy practice.” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“And my father! —oh, my father! evil is it with his daughter, when his grey hairs are not remembered because of the golden locks of youth!” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“But I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it; but not upon such as thou.” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“Thy resolution may fluctuate on the wild and changeful billows of human opinion, but mine is anchored on the Rock of Ages.” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“Chivalry!—why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection—the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant—Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best...” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“I have heard men talk of the blessings of freedom . . . but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“Now, it is well known, that a man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach either of real good breeding or of good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute point of fashionable etiquette.” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“Of all the train none escaped except Wamba, who showed upon the occasion much more courage than those who pretended to greater sense.” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“I see it is still more difficult to look upon victory than upon battle.” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“I have sought but a kindred spirit to share it, and I have found such in thee.” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“Nothing could be more gracefully majestic than his step and manner, had they not been marked by a predominant air of haughtiness, easily acquired by the exercise of unresisted authority.” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“Courtesy of tongue . . . when it is used to veil churlishness of deed, is but a knight's girdle around the breast of a base clown.” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“a man can but do his best.” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“The lovers of the chase say that the hare feels more agony during the pursuit of the greyhounds, than when she is struggling in their fangs.” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“The love of battle is the food upon which we live—the dust of the 'melee' is the breath of our nostrils! We live not—we wish not to live—longer than while we are victorious and renowned—Such, maiden, are the laws of chivalry to which we...” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“revenge is a feast for the gods! And if they have reserved it, as priests tell us, to themselves, it is because they hold it an enjoyment too precious for the possession of mere mortals.” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“Such a visage, joined to the brawny form of the holy man, spoke rather of sirloins and haunches, than of pease and pulse.” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“Rebecca! she who could prefer death to dishonour, must have a proud and a powerful soul.” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“Alas! . . . that so dull a spirit should be lodged in so goodly a form! Alas! that such an enterprise as the regeneration of England should turn on a hinge so imperfect!” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“God of Jacob! it is the meeting of two fierce tides—the conflict of two oceans moved by adverse winds!” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“adversity bends the heart as fire bends the stubborn steel” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“they who jest with Majesty even in its gayest mood are but toying with the lion's whelp, which, on slight provocation, uses both fangs and claws.” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

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