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
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Walter Savage Landor
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Walter Savage Landor
We talk on principle but we act on interest.
Walter Savage Landor
Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
Walter Savage Landor
Delay of justice is injustice.
Walter Savage Landor
Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.
Walter Savage Landor
States like men have their growth their manhood their decrepitude their decay.
Walter Savage Landor
Men like nails lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
Walter Savage Landor
As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable a more intimate one would be unsafe and unsatisfactory.
Walter Savage Landor
Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.
Walter Savage Landor
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
Walter Savage Landor
A man's vanity tells him what is honour a man's conscience what is justice.
Walter Savage Landor
Men like snails lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
Walter Savage Landor
The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
Walter Savage Landor
What is reading but silent conversation?
Walter Savage Landor
We cannot conquer fate and necessity yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.
Walter Savage Landor
There is no easy path leading out of life and few are the easy ones that lie within it.
Walter Savage Landor
Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.
Walter Savage Landor
Cats ask plainly for what they want.
Walter Savage Landor
When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.
Walter Savage Landor
The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.
Walter Savage Landor
Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
Walter Savage Landor
What is reading but silent conversation.
Walter Savage Landor
No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken,Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
Walter Savage Landor