Quotes from Redgauntlet — Walter Scott
1771–1832 Scotland
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Tell that to the marines—the sailors won't believe it.
Redgauntlet (1824)
Look to a gown of gold, and you will at least get a sleeve of it.
Redgauntlet (1824)
Those who follow the banners of Reason are like the well-disciplined battalion, which, wearing a more sober uniform, and making a less dazzling show, than the light troops commanded by Imagination, enjoy more safety, and even more honour, in the conflicts of human life.
Redgauntlet (1824)
You will, I trust, resemble a forest plant, which has, indeed, by some accident, been brought up in the greenhouse, and thus rendered delicate and effeminate, but which regains its native firmness and tenacity, when exposed for a season to the winter air.
Redgauntlet (1824)