Best 16 quotes of James Hogg on MyQuotes

A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart-better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?

If a body could just find oot the exac' proper proportion and quantity that ought to be drunk every day, and keep to that, I verily trow that he might leeve for ever, without dying at a', and that doctors and kirkyards would og oot o' fashion.

Man mind yoursel is the first commandment.

Musical cherub, soar, singing, away! Then, when the gloaming comes, Low in the heather blooms Sweet will thy welcome and bed of love be! Emblem of happiness, Blest is thy dwelling-place O, to abide in the desert with thee!

Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.

Oh, why should vows so fondly made, Be broken ere the morrow, To one who loves as never maid Loved in this world of sorrow?

O, love, love, love! Love is like a dizziness; It winna let a poor body Gang about his biziness!

That undefined and mingled hum, Voice of the desert never dumb!

The daisy is fair, the day-lily rare, The bud o' the rose as sweet as it's bonnie.

What is the life of a man more than the life of a lamb, or any guiltless animal?

Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence.

An exaltation of spirit lifted me, as it were, far above the earth and the sinful creatures crawling on its surface; and I deemed myself as an eagle among the children of men, soaring on high, and looking down with pity and contempt on the grovelling creatures below.

Having been bred amongst mountains I am always unhappy when in a flat country. Whenever the skirts of the horizon come on a level with myself I feel myself quite uneasy and generally have a headache. (Letter to Sir Walter Scott, 25 July 1802)

…he knew no other pleasure but what consisted in opposition.

The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being that had sold himself to destruction

We are all subjected to two distinct natures in the same person. I myself have suffered grievously in that way.