The Bride of Lammermoor Quotes

“Craigengelt, you are either an honest fellow in right good earnest, and I scarce know how to believe that; or you are cleverer than I took you for, and I scarce know how to believe that either.”
― Sir Walter Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor

“All however agreed, that the spot was fatal to the Ravenswood family; and to drink of the waters of the well or even approach its brink, was ominous to a descendant of that house, as for a Grahame to wear green, a Bruce to kill a spider, or a St. Clair to cross the Ord on a Monday.”
― Walter Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor

“And these are the sons of my father’s vassals,” he said, “men bound by both law and gratitude, to follow our steps through battle and fire and flood. And now the destruction of their life lord’s house is but a holiday’s sight for them.”
― Sir Walter Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor: The 1819 Literary Historical Novel Classic