An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Why cannot we be delighted with an author, and even feel a predilection for him, without a dislike of others? An admiration… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
God made the rose out of what was left of woman at the creation. The great difference is, we feel the rose's… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Ah what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
