WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR QUOTES

English writer and poet (1775-1864)

Walter Savage Landor quote

The royal lottery-keeper is both a gambler and a swindler; for in his playing he knows that the stake he lays down is unequal to his opponent's.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

Imaginary Conversations

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The worst of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed. As water containing stony particles encrusts with them the ferns and mosses it drops on, so the human breast hardens under ingratitude, in proportion to its openness, and aptitude to receive impressions.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

Imaginary Conversations

Tags: ingratitude


Avoid, which many grave men have not done, words taken from sacred subjects and from elevated poetry: these we have seen vilely prostituted. Avoid too the society of the barbarians who misemploy them.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

"Barrow and Newton", Dialogues of Literary Men

Tags: words


Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction; before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

Imaginary Conversations


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

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

Imaginary Conversations

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Delay of justice is injustice.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

Imaginary Conversations

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Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression; and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

Second Series of Imaginary Conversations

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Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

"To Robert Browning"

Tags: William Shakespeare


A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

Imaginary Conversations

Tags: solitude


Life is but sighs; and, when they cease, 'tis over.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

Imaginary Conversations

Tags: life


An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

Imaginary Conversations

Tags: praise


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

Imaginary Conversations

Tags: necessity


A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without its dew?

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Imaginary Conversations

Tags: smiling


Ambition is but Avarice on stilts and masked.

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Imaginary Conversations

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Before there is wine or there is oil, the grape must be trodden and the olive must be pressed.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

Imaginary Conversations

Tags: oil


Glory can be safely despised by those only who have fairly won it.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

Imaginary Conversations

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I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

The Letters of Walter Savage Landor to Marguerite, Countess of Blessington


Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring to the highest ascent.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

Aphorisms

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Even the wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face of the same colour.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

Imaginary Conversations

Tags: power


What is reading but silent conversation.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

Imaginary Conversations

Tags: reading