Walter Savage Landor Quotes (52 Quotes)



    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.

    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.

    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.

    We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.




    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.

    Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

    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.




    He caught the flying smile, and blusht, and vow'd
    Nor time nor other power, whereto the might
    Of love hath yielded and may yield again,
    Should alter his.

    Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are the turbid look the most profound.





    Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

    Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.



    My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

    Fame, they tell you, is air but without air there is no life for any without fame there is none for the best.

    Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.

    Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear.



    There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.

    No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

    Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

    George the First was always reckoned Vile, but viler George the Second And what mortal ever heard Any good of George the Third When from earth the Fourth descended God be praised, the Georges ended.

    I see the rainbow in the sky, the dew upon the grass I see them, and I ask not why they glimmer or they pass. With folded arms I linger not to call them back twere vain In this, or in some other spot, I know theyll shine again.

    People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

    We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.


    I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.


    A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

    Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

    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.



    Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.

    Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.



    The bird of wisdom flies low, and seeks her food under hedges the eagle himself would be starved if he always soared aloft and against the sun.

    The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.


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