Walter Savage Landor Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Walter Savage Landor
Walter Savage Landor Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
Truth sometimes corner unawares upon Caution, and sometimes speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream.
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.
That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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
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.
O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.
Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.
The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.
I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.
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.
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.
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.
Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
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.
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.
Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other faces;Pride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.
As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.
I have since written what no tide
Shall ever wash away, what men
Unborn shall read o'er ocean wide
And find Ianthe's name agen.
Shall ever wash away, what men
Unborn shall read o'er ocean wide
And find Ianthe's name agen.
Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest.
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.
All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.
Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom; but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if folly and imprudence are the same.
Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.
Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.
As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.
The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over.
I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.
The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight.
Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.
Justice is often pale and melancholy; but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness.
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.
Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding; and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery.
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.