Guy Mannering Quotes

“Mr. Sampson, you forget the difference between Plato and Zenocrates.”
― Walter Scott, Guy Mannering

“it was Zenocrates, not Plato, who denied that pain was an evil.”
― Walter Scott, Guy Mannering

“Hunger and fear are excellent casuists.”
― Walter Scott, Guy Mannering

“Fools should not have chapping sticks'; that is, weapons of offence.”
― Walter Scott, Guy Mannering

“by profession an observer of tones and gestures,”
― Walter Scott, Guy Mannering

“we resign to civil society our natural rights of self-defence only on condition that the ordinances of law should protect us.”
― Walter Scott, Guy Mannering

“Fear to do base unworthy things is valour;      If they be done to us, to suffer them      Is valour too.”
― Walter Scott, Guy Mannering

“cared for no rogues but their own,”
― Walter Scott, Guy Mannering

“...crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.”
― Walter Scott, Guy Mannering

“Godfrey Bertram of Ellangowan succeeded to a long pedigree and a short rent-roll, like many lairds of that period.”
― Walter Scott, Guy Mannering

“there are stratagems in law as well as war.”
― Walter Scott, Guy Mannering

“lawyer's anxiety about the fate of the most interesting cause has seldom spoiled either his sleep or digestion.”
― Walter Scott, Guy Mannering

“In civilised society law is the chimney through which all that smoke discharges itself that used to circulate through the whole house,”
― Walter Scott, Guy Mannering

“It is the pest of our profession that we seldom see the best side of human nature.”
― Walter Scott, Guy Mannering

“he was too proud a man to be a vain one.”
― Walter Scott, Guy Mannering