# Quote — Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

> Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours-ambition is the serious business of life.

- Author: [Walter Scott](https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-scott.md)
- Book: [Ivanhoe](https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-scott/ivanhoe.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walter_Scott#Ivanhoe_(1819)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-scott/ivanhoe/women-are-but

## More from this book

> There is yet spirit in him, were it well directed- but, like the Greek fire, it burns whatever approaches it.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-scott/ivanhoe/there-is-yet.md)

> Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like goodly vessels driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and so perish.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-scott/ivanhoe/thou-and-i-are.md)

> You have power, rank, command, influence; we have wealth, the source both of our strength and weakness; the value of these toys, ten times multiplied, would not influence half so much as your slightest wish.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-scott/ivanhoe/you-have-power.md)