Walter Savage Landor Quotes
An English writer and poet.
(1775 - 1864)
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
[Conscience]
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A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.
[Government]
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A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. - What is the dawn without its dew? - The tear, by the smile, is made precious above the smile itself.
[Tears]
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A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
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Although men of eminent genius have been guilty of all other vices, none worthy of more than a secondary name has ever been a gamester. Either an excess of avarice, or a deficiency of excitability, is the cause of it; neither of which can exist in the same bosom with genius, patriotism, or virtue.
[Gambling]
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Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
[Ambition]
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
[Ambition]
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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
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As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.
[Fame]
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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.
[Friendship]
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Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.
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Children are what the mothers are; no fondest father's fondest care can so fashion the infant's heart, or so shape the life.
[Mother]
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Clear writers, like clear fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid looks most profound.
[Style]
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Delay of justice is injustice.
[Justice]
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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.
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Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language.
[Style]
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Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on what subjects he may. - He carries with him, for thousands of years, a portion of his times.
[History]
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Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.
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