Walter Scott Quotes About Character

• There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

  Walter Scott

  Character, Self, Excellence

• A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.

  Walter Scott

  Heart, Humble, Character

• Woman's faith and woman's trust, Write the characters in dust.

  Walter Scott

  Faith, Writing, Character

  Sir Walter Scott (1857). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott”, p.303

• The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.

  Walter Scott

  Character, Tragedy, Denmark

  The Talisman introduction (1825). Source of the expression "Hamlet without the Prince." The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations notes that W. J. Parke, in Musical Memories (1830), "gives a similar anecdote from 1787."

• The time which passes over our heads so imperceptibly makes the same gradual change in habits, manners and character, as in personal appearance. At the revolution of every five years we find ourselves another and yet the same;--there is a change of views, and no less of the light in which we regard them; a change of motives as well as of action.

  Walter Scott

  Time, Character, Light

  Sir Walter Scott (1856). “Waverley Novels”, p.272

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