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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
— Walter Savage Landor
Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.
— Walter Savage Landor
Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
— Walter Savage Landor
Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language.
— Walter Savage Landor
Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
— Walter Savage Landor
That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.
— Walter Savage Landor
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
— Walter Savage Landor
Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one
— Walter Savage Landor
Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.
— 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
It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.
— Walter Savage Landor
The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
— 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
I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.
— Walter Savage Landor
Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth.
— Walter Savage Landor
The assailant is often in the right; the assailed is always.
— Walter Savage Landor
Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound.
— Walter Savage Landor
Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.
— Walter Savage Landor
What is reading but silent conversation.
— Walter Savage Landor
Children are what the mothers are.
— Walter Savage Landor
The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.
— Walter Savage Landor
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
— Walter Savage Landor
I have since written what no tideShall ever wash away, what men
Unborn shall read o'er ocean wide
And find Ianthe's name agen. — 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
There is a vast deal of vital air in loving words.
— Walter Savage Landor
The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.
— Walter Savage Landor
Falsehood is for a season.
— Walter Savage Landor
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
— Walter Savage Landor
The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's.
— Walter Savage Landor
I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
— Walter Savage Landor
Belief in the future life is the appetite of reason.
— Walter Savage Landor
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
— Walter Savage Landor
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
— Walter Savage Landor
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may.
— Walter Savage Landor
I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.
— Walter Savage Landor
Delay in justice is injustice.
— Walter Savage Landor
Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
— Walter Savage Landor
The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.
— Walter Savage Landor
When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.
— Walter Savage Landor
States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.
— Walter Savage Landor
We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.
— Walter Savage Landor
A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
— Walter Savage Landor
Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.
— Walter Savage Landor
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
— Walter Savage Landor
Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.
— 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
No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken,Than that the largest heart is soonest broken. — Walter Savage Landor
