Quotes by Walter Savage Landor

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and...

#Age, #Funny

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

#Age

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

#Falsehood, #Politics

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats...

#Excess, #Truth

Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is...

#Failure

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make...

#Wisdom

I strove with none; for none was worth my strife; Nature I loved, and, next...

#Walter Savage Landor

A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

#Walter Savage Landor

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

#Walter Savage Landor

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

#Walter Savage Landor

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

#Walter Savage Landor

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand,...

#Walter Savage Landor