[ walter savage landor Quotes ]

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
[ Justice ]
Walter Savage Landor

 

   
20 votes

A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
[ Solitude ]
Walter Savage Landor

 

   
22 votes

Absence and death are the same -- only that in death there is no suffering.
[ Absence ]
Walter Savage Landor

 

   
21 votes

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
[ Merit ]
Walter Savage Landor

 

   
22 votes

Consult duty not events.
[ Duty ]
Walter Savage Landor

 

   
21 votes

Great men always pay deference to greater.
[ Greatness ]
Walter Savage Landor

 

   
23 votes

I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
[ Quarrels ]
Walter Savage Landor

 

   
22 votes

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
[ Death and Dying ]
Walter Savage Landor

 

   
17 votes

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
[ Politicians and Politics ]
Walter Savage Landor

 

   
22 votes

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
[ Thoughts and Thinking ]
Walter Savage Landor

 

   
24 votes

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
[ Busyness ]
Walter Savage Landor

 

   
24 votes

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
[ Age and Aging ]
Walter Savage Landor

 

   
21 votes

People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
[ Goals ]
Walter Savage Landor

 

   
24 votes

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
[ Anger ]
Walter Savage Landor

 

   
22 votes

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
[ Writers and Writing ]
Walter Savage Landor

 

   
21 votes

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
[ Humankind ]
Walter Savage Landor

 

   
20 votes

We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.
[ Happiness ]
Walter Savage Landor

 

   
21 votes

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
[ Happiness ]
Walter Savage Landor

 

   
23 votes

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
[ Motivation ]
Walter Savage Landor

 

   
24 votes

We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
[ Ingratitude ]
Walter Savage Landor

 

   
23 votes

What is reading, but silent conversation.
[ Books - Reading ]
Walter Savage Landor

 

   
22 votes

Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.
[ Wrong ]
Walter Savage Landor

 

   
23 votes