“Descansar demasiado es oxidarse.”
Fuente: Palomo Triguero, Eduardo. Cita-logía. Editorial Punto Rojo Libros,S.L. ISBN 978-84-16068-10-4. p. 88.
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Frases célebres de Walter Scott
“La parte más importante de la educación del hombre es aquella que él mismo se da.”
Fuente: Israel, Ricardo. El libro de las verdades. Citas citables. Editorial RIL Editores, 2011. p. 123.
“El que sube una escalera debe empezar por el primer peldaño.”
Fuente: Israel, Ricardo. El libro de las verdades. Citas citables. Editorial RIL Editores, 2011. p. 61.
“La venganza es el manjar más sabroso condimentado en el infierno.”
Fuente: Palomo Triguero, Eduardo. Cita-logía. Editorial Punto Rojo Libros,S.L. ISBN 978-84-16068-10-4. p. 285.
“Mira hacia atrás y ríete de los peligros pasados.”
Fuente: Lorena Padilla, María. Sí a la Vida. Convivir con el cáncer, una experiencia llena de fuerza y esperanza. Editorial Dunken. ISBN 9789870261469. p. 13.
“A los tímidos y a los indecisos todo les resulta imposible, porque así se lo parece.”
Fuente: Cala, Ismael. La vida es una piñata. Editorial HarperCollins, 2016. ISBN 9780718087661.
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Walter Scott: Frases en inglés
Last words, as quoted in John Gibson Lockhart Memoirs of the life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Vol. VII (1838), p. 294
“When, musing on companions gone,
We doubly feel ourselves alone.”
Walter Scott Marmion
Canto II, introduction.
Marmion (1808)
“Such is the custom of Branksome Hall.”
Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Canto I, stanza 7.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
Walter Scott libro Quentin Durward
Quentin Durward, Chap. iv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.”
Walter Scott libro The Betrothed
The Betrothed, Chap. xxviii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“And better had they ne'er been born,
Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.”
Walter Scott libro The Monastery
Fuente: The Monastery (1820), Ch. 12.
Walter Scott libro Waverley
Fuente: Waverley (1814), Chapter LIV
“It's no fish ye're buying, it's men's lives.”
Walter Scott libro The Antiquary
Volume I, Ch. 11.
The Antiquary (1816)
Walter Scott libro The Antiquary
Vol. I, Ch.15.
The Antiquary (1816), On the postal service
Walter Scott libro Old Mortality
Old Mortality, Chap. xxxiv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“And come he slow, or come he fast,
It is but Death who comes at last.”
Walter Scott Marmion
Canto II, introduction, st. 30.
Marmion (1808)
“The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.”
Life of Napoleon (February, 1807).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variante: The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.
“Oh for a blast of that dread horn
On Fontarabian echoes borne!”
Walter Scott Marmion
Canto VI, stanza 33.
Marmion (1808)
Walter Scott libro Rokeby
Canto III, stanza 16.
Rokeby (1813)
Walter Scott libro Ivanhoe
Fuente: Ivanhoe (1819), Ch. 26, Wamba explaining to Cedric how to get away with impersonating a priest. Pax vobiscum means "peace be with you".
“For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war,
Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.”
Walter Scott Marmion
Canto V, st. 12 (Lochinvar, st. 2).
Marmion (1808)
Walter Scott libro Ivanhoe
Fuente: Ivanhoe (1819), Ch. 29, Ivanhoe to Rebecca, who questions the value of chivalry and has asked what remains for knights when death takes them.
“Spur not an unbroken horse; put not your plowshare too deep into new land.”
Walter Scott libro The Monastery
Fuente: The Monastery (1820), Ch. 25.
“If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.”
Walter Scott libro Woodstock
Woodstock (1826), Ch. 28.
“To all, to each, a fair good-night,
And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light!”
Walter Scott Marmion
L'Envoy.
Marmion (1808)
Canto V, stanza 30. <br class="br"> The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)
“And darest thou then
To beard the lion in his den,
The Douglas in his hall?”
Walter Scott Marmion
Canto VI, st. 14.
Marmion (1808)
Walter Scott libro Ivanhoe
Fuente: Ivanhoe (1819), Ch. 44, Rebecca speaking to Rowena.
“Where lives the man that has not tried
How mirth can into folly glide,
And folly into sin!”
Bridal of Triermain, canto i. Stanza 21.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Walter Scott Marmion
Were the last words of Marmion.
Canto VI, st. 32.
Marmion (1808)
“The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.”
Walter Scott libro The Monastery
Answer of the Author of Waverley to the Letter of Captain Clutterbuck.
The Monastery (1820)
“There is a southern proverb—fine words butter no parsnips.”
Walter Scott libro A Legend of Montrose
A Legend of Montrose (1819), Ch. 3.
