Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once;… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl; no hatred so intense and immovable as that… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Let me take up your metaphor. Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat or violence or accident, may… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship; in the hours of gladness and conviviality,… — 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
