All Walter Savage Landor Quotes
- A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice. Conscience
- There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from… Aloof
- What is reading but silent conversation? Conversation
- Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her. Ambition
- Great men always pay deference to greater. Always Pay
- Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty. Excessive
- An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. Bitterest
- Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else; and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes without our knowledge, and goes… Appear
- Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest. Act
- Cats like men are flatterers. Cat
- The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional. Circuitous
- Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good. Certainly Make
- In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose. Alert
- There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it. Easy
- The highest price we can pay for anything; is to ask it. Ask
- We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it; but… Avoid
- Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen… Compassion
- Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always. Almost Equal
- Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their… Cake
- Solitude is the audience-chamber of God. Audience