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
In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away, or blunted. Its only bad… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Truth sometimes corner unawares upon Caution, and sometimes speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt. The most sparkling and pointed… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The habitude 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
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
