Walter Savage Landor Quotes about Heart

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The worse of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed.

The worse of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed.

Walter Savage Landor

Lying, Heart, Produce

Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.524

That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.

Walter Savage Landor

Heart, Poetry, Source

Walter Savage Landor (1834). “Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, Euseby Treen, Joseph Carnaby and Silas Gough, Clerk: Before the Worshipful Sir Thomas Lucy, Knight, Touching Deer-stealing on the 19th Day of September in the Year of Grace 1582, Now First Published from Original Papers”, p.177

Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.

Walter Savage Landor

Anger, Heart, Understanding

Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.242

What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller?

Walter Savage Landor

Heart, Dimensions, Companionship

Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.94

Not dancing well, I never danced at all--and how grievously has my heart ached when others where in the full enjoyment of that conversation which I had no right even to partake.

Walter Savage Landor

Dance, Heart, Dancing

Walter Savage Landor, Marguerite Blessington (Countess of), John Francis Mariani (1973). “The letters of Walter Savage Landor to Marguerite, Countess of Blessington”

No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.

Walter Savage Landor

Heart, Broken

Walter Savage Landor (1969). “Poems”

In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship; in the hours of gladness and conviviality, what is our want? It is friendship. When the heart overflows with gratitude, or with any other sweet or sacred sentiment, what is the word to which it would give utterance? A friend.

Walter Savage Landor

Gratitude, Sweet, Heart

We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.

Walter Savage Landor

Heart, Imagination, Wish

Walter Savage Landor (1836). “Pericles and Aspasia”, p.225

There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart: but arises from tenderness and hangs upon reflection.

Walter Savage Landor

Heart, Reflection, Melancholy

Walter Savage Landor (1846). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.114