Biographie

He had four children: Charlotte Sophia Scott, born 1799; Walter Scott, born 1801; Anne Scott, born 1803; and Charles Scott, born 1805.

In 1820 he was created a baronet.

The line "Oh, what a tangled web we weave" is often thought to be from Shakespeare's Macbeth, but it was written by Scott in his poem, Marmion in 1808.

In early childhood, Scott was considered too sickly to attend school. He was taught to read by his aunt Jenny Scott. She narrated to him a number of legends which he later used as inspiration for his literary works.

Walter Scott was the ninth child and namesake son of Walter Scott (1729-1799), a Scottish solicitor. His maternal uncle was the chemist Daniel Rutherford (1749-1819), notable for the successful isolation of nitrogen in 1772.

Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of.

True love's the gift which God has given, to man alone beneath the heaven.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.