Top 25 Quotes by Walter Savage Landor of 227

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Walter Savage Landor

Humanity, Earth, Divine

Great men always pay deference to greater.

Walter Savage Landor

Greatness, Men, Pay

How sweet and sacred idleness is!

Walter Savage Landor

Sweet, Sacred, Idleness

Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.272

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.

Walter Savage Landor

Men, Kwanzaa, Nails

Walter Savage Landor (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Walter Savage Landor

Thinking, Ideas, Together

Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.74

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

Walter Savage Landor

Life, Nature, Future

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

Walter Savage Landor

Music, Art, Inspiration

The highest price we can pay for anything; is to ask it.

Walter Savage Landor

Money, Pay, Wealth

Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.174

I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Walter Savage Landor

Art, Fire, Hands

"Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher" l. 1 (1853)

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

Walter Savage Landor

Happiness, Happy, Wish

A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.

Walter Savage Landor

Government, Long, Democracy

Josiah Ablett, Walter Savage Landor (1837). “Literary Hours”, p.87

Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love.

Walter Savage Landor

Men, His Love, Pleasure

Walter Savage Landor (1829). “Barrow and Newton. Peleus and Thetis. The King of Ava and Rao-Gong-Fao. Photo Zavellas and his sister Kaido. Epicurus, Leontion, and Ternissa. The Empress Catharine and Princess Dashkoff. William Penn and Lord Peterborough. Miguel and mother. Metellus and Marius. Nicolas and Michel. Leofric and Godiva. Izaac Walton, Cotton, and William Oldways”, p.27

Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.

Walter Savage Landor

Library, Exploring

Walter Savage Landor (1836). “Pericles and Aspasia”, p.205

There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.

Walter Savage Landor

Life, Lying, Path

Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.225

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

Walter Savage Landor

Oil, Childhood, Age

"Oil USA". Book by Thomas Chi, p. 7, December 1, 2011.

Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.

Walter Savage Landor

Greatness, Men, Littles

Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.110

Consult duty not events.

Walter Savage Landor

Advice, Events, Duty

When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.

Walter Savage Landor

Home, Feelings, Mind

Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.272

It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires.

Walter Savage Landor

Wise, Desire, Belief

Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.225

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 us.

Walter Savage Landor

Thinking, Justice, Diversity

Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.428

Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear; Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear.

Walter Savage Landor

Fear, Ears, Whispering

'Death stands above me' (1853)

What is reading but silent conversation?

Walter Savage Landor

Book, Reading, Library

Walter Savage Landor (1826). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.497

Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

Walter Savage Landor

God, Wise, Wisdom

Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen: Richard I and the Abbot of Boxley. The Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney. King Henry IV and Sir Arnold Savage. Southey and Porson. Oliver Cromwel and Walter Noble. Aeschines and Phocion. Queen Elizabeth and Cecil. King James I and Isaac Casaubon. Marchese Pallavicini and Walter Landor. General Kleber and some French officers. Bonaparte and the president of the senate. Bishop Burnet and Humphrey Hardcastle. Peter Leopold and the President Du”, p.16