Walter Landor Famous Quotes & Sayings
100 Walter Landor Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married.— Walter Savage Landor
God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers O'er the wide earth, and tells us all are ours. A hundred lights in every temple burn, And at each shrine I bend my knee in turn.— Walter Savage Landor
He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt.— Walter Savage Landor
Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians delve too deep for them. No history was ever true. Lives I have read which, if they were not, had the appearance, the interest, and the utility of truth.— Walter Savage Landor
Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation.— Walter Savage Landor
It often comes into my head That we may dream when we are dead, But I am far from sure we do. O that it were so! then my rest Would be indeed among the blest; I should for ever dream of you.— Walter Savage Landor
No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.— Walter Savage Landor
Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.— Walter Savage Landor
The very beautiful rarely love at all; those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions: Time alone is permitted to efface them.— Walter Savage Landor
Cruelty in all countries is the companion of anger; but there is only one, and never was another on the globe, where she coquets both with anger and mirth.— Walter Savage Landor
Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away; but, Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet.— Walter Savage Landor
Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.— Walter Savage Landor
Fame, they tell you, is air; but without air there is no life for any; without fame there is none for the best.— Walter Savage Landor
Ah what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes May weep, but never see, A night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee.— Walter Savage Landor
A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.— Walter Savage Landor
The sublime is contained in a grain of dust.— Walter Savage Landor
The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.— Walter Savage Landor
No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.— Walter Savage Landor
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.— Walter Savage Landor
Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.— Walter Savage Landor
The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence.— Walter Savage Landor
Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.— Walter Savage Landor
Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away, or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it; and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood, of those who press earnestly upon it.— Walter Savage Landor
Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities.— Walter Savage Landor
Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.— Walter Savage Landor
Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among men, will not condemn to death him who has done or is likely to do more service than injury to society. Blocks and gibbets are the nearest objects with legislators, and their business is never with hopes or with virtues.— Walter Savage Landor
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may.— Walter Savage Landor
And Modesty, who, when she goes,— Walter Savage Landor
Is gone for ever.
Belief in the future life is the appetite of reason.— Walter Savage Landor
Truth sometimes corner unawares upon Caution, and sometimes speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream.— Walter Savage Landor
Justice is often pale and melancholy; but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness.— Walter Savage Landor
When a woman hath ceased to be quite the same to us, it matters little how different she becomes.— Walter Savage Landor
Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language.— Walter Savage Landor
The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight.— Walter Savage Landor
Fame often rests at first upon something accidental, and often, too, is swept away, or for a time removed; but neither genius nor glory, is conferred at once, nor do they glimmer and fall, like drops in a grotto, at a shout.— Walter Savage Landor
The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over.— Walter Savage Landor
The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.— Walter Savage Landor
No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken,— Walter Savage Landor
Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.— Walter Savage Landor
I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.— Walter Savage Landor
Great men always pay deference to greater.— Walter Savage Landor
Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.— Walter Savage Landor
The assailant is often in the right; the assailed is always.— Walter Savage Landor
Cats, like men, are flatterers.— Walter Savage Landor
True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.— Walter Savage Landor
If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt, if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry; if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius; and Fancy herself would lie muffled up in her robe, inactive, pale, and bloated.— Walter Savage Landor
The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.— Walter Savage Landor
When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus!— Walter Savage Landor
It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.— Walter Savage Landor
As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.— Walter Savage Landor
A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.— Walter Savage Landor
Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be; since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.— Walter Savage Landor
O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.— Walter Savage Landor
I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.— Walter Savage Landor
There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.— Walter Savage Landor
In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.— Walter Savage Landor
The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.— Walter Savage Landor
When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.— Walter Savage Landor
Why cannot we be delighted with an author, and even feel a predilection for him, without a dislike of others? An admiration of Catullus or Virgil, of Tibullus or Ovid, is never to be heightened by a discharge of bile on Horace.— Walter Savage Landor
The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.— Walter Savage Landor
I have since written what no tide— Walter Savage Landor
Shall ever wash away, what men
Unborn shall read o'er ocean wide
And find Ianthe's name agen.
A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without the dew? The tear is rendered by the smile precious above the smile itself.— Walter Savage Landor
Hope is the mother of faith.— Walter Savage Landor
Other offences, even the greatest, are the violation of one law: despotism is the violation of all.— Walter Savage Landor
Many love music but for music's sake, Many because her touches can awake Thoughts that repose within the breast half-dead, And rise to follow where she loves to lead. What various feelings come from days gone by! What tears from far-off sources dim the eye! Few, when light fingers with sweet voices play, And melodies swell, pause, and melt away, Mind how at every touch, at every tone, A spark of life hath glistened and hath gone.— Walter Savage Landor
The worse of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed.— Walter Savage Landor
There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.— Walter Savage Landor
Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly; but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory.— Walter Savage Landor
The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.— Walter Savage Landor
Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art.— Walter Savage Landor
How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of absence to which we owe such delight.— Walter Savage Landor
The vain poet is of the opinion that nothing of his can be too much: he sends to you basketful after basketful of juiceless fruit, covered with scentless flowers.— Walter Savage Landor
Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.— Walter Savage Landor
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.— Walter Savage Landor
How sweet and sacred idleness is!— Walter Savage Landor
Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.— Walter Savage Landor
What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller?— Walter Savage Landor
It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires.— Walter Savage Landor
The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's.— Walter Savage Landor
Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself.— Walter Savage Landor
Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.— Walter Savage Landor
No good writer was ever long neglected; no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength, and a destroyer of what little there may be.— Walter Savage Landor
There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.— Walter Savage Landor
O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.— Walter Savage Landor
We enter our studies, and enjoy a society which we alone can bring together. We raise no jealousy by conversing with one in preference to another; we give no offence to the most illustrious by questioning him as long as we will, and leaving him as abruptly. Diversity of opinion raises no tumult in our presence: each interlocutor stands before us, speaks or is silent, and we adjourn or decide the business at our leisure.— Walter Savage Landor
Moroseness is the evening of turbulence.— Walter Savage Landor
Not dancing well, I never danced at all— Walter Savage Landor
and how grievously has my heart ached when others where in the full enjoyment of that conversation which I had no right even to partake.
When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.— Walter Savage Landor
The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.— Walter Savage Landor
All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.— Walter Savage Landor
In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship; in the hours of gladness and conviviality, what is our want? It is friendship. When the heart overflows with gratitude, or with any other sweet or sacred sentiment, what is the word to which it would give utterance? A friend.— Walter Savage Landor
There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her works, and which is necessary to encourage and keep alive the arts.— Walter Savage Landor
Virtue is presupposed in friendship.— Walter Savage Landor
Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.— Walter Savage Landor
Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding; and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery.— Walter Savage Landor
There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from us.— Walter Savage Landor
Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.— Walter Savage Landor
We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.— Walter Savage Landor
Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.— Walter Savage Landor
As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable; a more intimate one would be unsafe and unsatisfactory.— Walter Savage Landor
