Scott Waverley Quotes

#1. I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers of the field. I casually inspect the universe.

Irwin Shaw

#2. Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. - It is not fair. - He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. - I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it - but fear I must.

Jane Austen

#3. Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.

William Shakespeare

#4. Loving your enemy. Doing good things for evil people. Never taking vengeance. Responding to violence with nonviolent love - even if it brings suffering. These are not options, but the primary character traits of those who claim to follow a crucified God.

Preston Sprinkle

#5. Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.

Horace Mann

#6. God is One. There cannot be two or more. For if there were two God's who created them? There must have been someone who came before them. Therefore God is only One - One Final Absolute Existence. Everything else is a manifestation of Him.

Rama Swami

#7. I've got Colin Firth's number in my phone!

Taron Egerton

#8. What happened to Paul was tragic, but he was not a tragedy.

Paul Kalanithi

#9. I believe there's no such thing as a conflict that can't be ended. They're created and sustained by human beings. They can be ended by human beings. No matter how ancient the conflict, no matter how hateful, no matter how hurtful, peace can prevail.

George J. Mitchell

#10. Thou are boot for many a bruise,
And healest many a wound;
In our Lady's blessed name,
I take thee from the ground.

Walter Scott

#11. The education of our hero, Edward Waverley, was of a nature somewhat desultory. In infancy his health suffered, or was supposed to suffer (which is quite the same thing), by the air of London.

Walter Scott

#12. Stories are a different kind of true.

Emma Donoghue

#13. It's like hearing a song for the first time and being struck by it, haunted by it, wanting to hunt it down and catch it, because the song sums up something you didn't know you wanted to say, giving you chills and goose bumps.

Kirsty Eagar

#14. It was dark and raining, with bad visibility, but this was Jersey, and we don't slow down for anything.

Janet Evanovich

#15. On Writing: A multitude of improbabilities can be forgiven as long as enough plausibility has been established.

Danielle Ackley-McPhail

#16. Did I hate him, then? Indeed, I believe so. A love like that can grow to be nine-tenths hatred and still call itself love.

C.S. Lewis