Walter Savage Landor Quotes

"There is nothing on earth divine except humanity."
- Walter Savage Landor
(Related: Earth, Humanity, Nothing)

"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
(Related: Men, Truth, Consequences, Excess)

"We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier."
- Walter Savage Landor

"There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it."
- Walter Savage Landor
(Related: Life, Lie, Leading)

"We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love."
- Walter Savage Landor
(Related: Fancy, Ingratitude, Reality, Self)

"We talk on principal, but act on motivation."
- Walter Savage Landor
(Related: Motivation, Act, Talk)

"We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love."
- Walter Savage Landor
(Related: Ingratitude, Reality, Self)

"No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable."
- Walter Savage Landor

"In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always."
- Walter Savage Landor
(Related: Politics, Truth, Argument, Falsehood)

"There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer."
- Walter Savage Landor
(Related: Delight, Singing)

"No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner."
- Walter Savage Landor

"Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good."
- Walter Savage Landor
(Related: Happiness, Men, Goodness)

"A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice."
- Walter Savage Landor
(Related: Conscience, Honor, Justice, Man, Vanity)

"A solitude is the audience-chamber of God."
- Walter Savage Landor
(Related: God, Solitude)

"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
(Related: Power, Ambition, Fame, Grave, Rest, Reward)

"Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws."
- Walter Savage Landor
(Related: Men, Laws)

"Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked."
- Walter Savage Landor
(Related: Ambition)

"An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof."
- Walter Savage Landor
(Related: Mind, Praise)

"Great men always pay deference to greater."
- Walter Savage Landor
(Related: Men)

"Consult duty not events."
- Walter Savage Landor
(Related: Duty, Events)

"Delay in justice is injustice."
- Walter Savage Landor
(Related: Delay, Injustice)

"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
(Related: Religion)

"The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander."
- Walter Savage Landor
(Related: Posterity, Writing)

"Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend."
- Walter Savage Landor
(Related: Men, Direction, Usefulness)

"Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature."
- Walter Savage Landor
(Related: Nature, Future, Human nature)

"I strove with none; for none was worth my strife."
- Walter Savage Landor
(Related: Worth)

"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
(Related: Art, Music, God, Earth, Heaven, Man)

"My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them."
- Walter Savage Landor
(Related: Thoughts, Company)

"People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend."
- Walter Savage Landor
(Related: People, Direction)

"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
(Related: Poetry, Prose, Weight)

"Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much."
- Walter Savage Landor
(Related: Men, Greatness, Being, Gain)

"Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age."
- Walter Savage Landor
(Related: Age, Adulthood, Childhood, Oil, Old, Study, Youth)

"The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love."
- Walter Savage Landor
(Related: Love, Anger)

"The Siren waits thee, singing song for song."
- Walter Savage Landor
(Related: Singing, Song)

"The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour."
- Walter Savage Landor
(Related: Power)

"Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce."
- Walter Savage Landor
(Related: Religion, Commerce, Competition)