Walter Scott Quotes About Pleasure

• Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.

  Walter Scott

  Dog, Animal, Toil

  Sir Walter Scott (1871). “The Talisman. Chronicles of Canongate (1st series)”, p.258

• Perhaps the perusal of such works may, without injustice, be compared with the use of opiates, baneful, when habitually and constantly resorted to, but of most blessed power in those moments of pain and of langour, when the whole head is sore, and the whole heart sick. If those who rail indiscriminately at this species of composition, were to consider the quantity of actual pleasure it produces, and the much greater proportion of real sorrow and distress which it alleviates, their philanthropy ought to moderate their critical pride, or religious intolerance.

  Walter Scott

  Religious, Pain, Real

  Sir Walter Scott (1829). “The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Biographical and critical notices of eminent novelists”, p.256

• Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.

  Walter Scott

  Humble, Ambition, Destiny

• Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade.

  Walter Scott

  Pain, Light, Dazzle

  Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott (1841). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart”, p.415

• Each must drain
  His share of pleasure, share of pain.

  Walter Scott

  Pain, Pleasure, Share

  Sir Walter Scott (1873). “Poetical Works”, p.88

• El placer del amante, como el del cazador, está en la persecución, y la belleza más brillante pierde la mitad de su mérito, como la flor su perfume, cuando la mano dispuesta puede alcanzarla con demasiada facilidad. Debe haber duda; debe haber dificultad y peligro.

  Walter Scott

  Amor, Flor, Manos

  Sir Walter Scott (1871). "Novelas de Waverley", p.352

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