Quotes By 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
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
My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
Walter Savage Landor
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
Walter Savage Landor
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
Walter Savage Landor
We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-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
There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.
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
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