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Famous Walter Savage Landor Quotes
“Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.”
“An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.”
“Cats like men are flatterers.”
“Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.”
“In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.”
“There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.”
“The highest price we can pay for anything; is to ask it.”
“Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.”
“I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.”
“In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.”
“We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.”
“We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.”
“The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.”
“Cats ask plainly for what they want.”
“Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.”
“A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.”
“We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.”
“Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.”
“Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.”
“No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.”