Quotes by Walter Savage Landor

About Walter Savage Landor:

Walter Savage Landor was an English writer and poet. His best known works were the prose Imaginary Conversations, and the poem Rose Aylmer, but the critical acclaim he received from contemporary poets and reviewers was not matched by public popularity. As remarkable as his work was, it was equalled by his rumbustious character and lively temperament.
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

Walter Savage Landor

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

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

Cats, like men, are flatterers.

Walter Savage Landor

When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.

Walter Savage Landor

Cats ask plainly for what they want.

Walter Savage Landor

Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.

Walter Savage Landor

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

Walter Savage Landor

Great men always pay deference to greater.

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

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

Walter Savage Landor

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

Walter Savage Landor

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

Walter Savage Landor

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

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

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

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

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

Walter Savage Landor

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

Walter Savage Landor

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.

Walter Savage Landor

Author Bio

  • NameWalter Savage Landor
  • DescriptionBritish writer
  • BornJanuary 30, 1775
  • DiedSeptember 17, 1864
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPoet; Writer