Broken Quote by Walter Savage Landor

Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth.

— Walter Savage Landor

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

A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

— Walter Savage Landor

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

— Walter Savage Landor

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

We talk on principle, but we act on interest

— Walter Savage Landor

States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.

— Walter Savage Landor

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

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.

— Walter Savage Landor

I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.

— Walter Savage Landor

The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.

— Walter Savage Landor

There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.

— Walter Savage Landor