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Walter Savage Landor Quotes
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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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else: and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes without our knowledge, and goes without it (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offense (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
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 Quotes)
All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
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 Quotes)
We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Of all cruelties those are the most intolerable that come under the name of condolence and consolation (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty, as, where the sun is brightest, the shade is deepest (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may. He carries with him for thousands of years a portion of his times (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
In church they are taught to love God; after church they are practised to love their neighbor (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
Truth sometimes corner unawares upon caution, and sometimes speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
When she kissed me once in a play, rubies were less bright than they; and less bright were those which shone In the palace of the Sun. Will they be as bright again? Not if kiss'd by other men (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
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 Quotes)
That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)