"It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it."
- Walter Scott
"Look back, and smile on perils past!"
"He seems, in manner and rank, above the class of young men who take that turn; but I remember hearing them say, that the little theatre at Fairport was to open with the performance of a young gentlema..."
"The wretch, concentred all in self,Living, shall forfeit fair renown,And, doubly dying, shall go downTo the vile dust, from whence he sprung,Unwept, unhonored, and unsung."
"In the wide pile, by others heeded not,Hers was one sacred solitary spot,Whose gloomy aisles and bending shelves containFor moral hunger food, and cures for moral pain."
"...[E]xcept the flying fish, there was no race existing on the earth, in the air, or the waters, who were the object of such an intermitting, general, and relentless persecution as the Jews of this pe..."
- Sir Walter Scott
"We are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon"
"Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell."
"Revenge is a feast for thegods!"
"A Christmas gambol oft could cheerThe poor man's heart through half the year."