We care not how many see us in choler, when we rave and bluster, and make as much noise and bustle as… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever. — 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
Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The very beautiful rarely love at all; those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions: Time alone is permitted… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“I loved him not; and yet, now he is gone, I feel I am alone. I check’d him while he spoke; yet,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“On love, on grief, on every human thing, Time sprinkles Lethe's water with his wing.” — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Many love music but for music's sake, Many because her touches can awake Thoughts that repose within the breast half-dead, And rise… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable. — 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
