The Heart of Mid-Lothian Quotes

“Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.”
― Walter Scott, The Heart of Mid-Lothian

“The gaudy colouring with which she veiled her unhappiness afforded as little real comfort as the gay uniform of the soldier when it is drawn over his mortal wound.”
― Walter Scott, The Heart of Mid-Lothian

“I ken, when we had a King, and a chancellor and Parliament - men o' our ain, we could aye peeble them wi' stanes when they werena gude bairns - but naebody's nails can reach the length o' Lunnon.”
― Walter Scott, The Heart of Mid-Lothian