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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
— Walter Savage Landor
Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself.
— Walter Savage Landor
Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.
— Walter Savage Landor
No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
— Walter Savage Landor
There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.
— Walter Savage Landor
Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
— Walter Savage Landor
A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.
— Walter Savage Landor
Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language.
— Walter Savage Landor
My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
— Walter Savage Landor
Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
— 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
Truth sometimes corner unawares upon Caution, and sometimes speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream.
— Walter Savage Landor
Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.
— Walter Savage Landor
There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
— 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
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
Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.
— 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
Consult duty not events.
— 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
No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl; no hatred so intense and immovable as that of woman for woman.
— Walter Savage Landor
Life is but sighs; and, when they cease, 'tis over.
— 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
Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
— Walter Savage Landor
Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth.
— Walter Savage Landor
Virtue is presupposed in friendship.
— 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
We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.
— Walter Savage Landor
Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.
— Walter Savage Landor
Moroseness is the evening of turbulence.
— Walter Savage Landor
Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
— Walter Savage Landor
Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.
— Walter Savage Landor
True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.
— 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
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
Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.
— 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
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
We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
— Walter Savage Landor
I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
— Walter Savage Landor
We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.
— 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
Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.
— Walter Savage Landor
Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate.
— Walter Savage Landor
Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language.
— Walter Savage Landor
There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.
— 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
There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
— 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
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
Death stands above me,Whispering low I know not what into my ear. — Walter Savage Landor
Contentment is better than divinations or visions.
— 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
He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt.
— 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
I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
— Walter Savage Landor
States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.
— Walter Savage Landor
We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it; but we avoid such as differ from us.
— Walter Savage Landor
No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken,Than that the largest heart is soonest broken. — 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
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
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
— 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
A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
— Walter Savage Landor
We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.
— Walter Savage Landor
What is reading but silent conversation.
— Walter Savage Landor
When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.
— Walter Savage Landor
The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.
— Walter Savage Landor
Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
— Walter Savage Landor
Delay in justice is injustice.
— Walter Savage Landor
I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.
— Walter Savage Landor
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may.
— Walter Savage Landor
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
— 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
Belief in the future life is the appetite of reason.
— Walter Savage Landor
He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author.
— Walter Savage Landor
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
— Walter Savage Landor
Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.
— Walter Savage Landor
If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.
— Walter Savage Landor
Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love.
— Walter Savage Landor
The highest price we can pay for anything; is to ask it.
— Walter Savage Landor
Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.
— 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
A little praise is good for a shy temper; it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others.
— Walter Savage Landor
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
— Walter Savage Landor
A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.
— Walter Savage Landor
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
— Walter Savage Landor
Falsehood is for a season.
— Walter Savage Landor
The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.
— Walter Savage Landor
There is a vast deal of vital air in loving words.
— 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
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
— Walter Savage Landor
The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.
— Walter Savage Landor
Children are what the mothers are.
— Walter Savage Landor