“He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author.”
Source: Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen
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Famous Walter Savage Landor Quotes
Source: Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor
“Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.”
Source: Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans
“A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.”
Source: Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)
“Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.”
Source: Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans
“Hope is the mother of faith.”
Source: 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
“Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language.”
Source: The Last Fruit Off an Old Tree
“The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.”
Source: Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor
Source: Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen
“Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.”
Source: Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans
Source: The Last Fruit Off an Old Tree
Source: Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans
“The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.”
Source: Imaginary Conversations: Dialogues of literary men. Dialogues of famous women. Miscellaneous dialogues
“We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.”
Source: Imaginary Conversations: Classical dialogues (Roman) Dialogues of sovereigns and statesmen
Source: Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans
“The assailant is often in the right; that the assailed is always.”
“We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.”
Source: Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans
Source: Imaginary Conversations: Dialogues of sovereigns and statesmen. Dialogues of literary men
Source: Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor
Source: Classical (imaginary) Conversations: Greek, Roman, Modern
“I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.”
Source: The Complete Works of Walter Savage Landor
“True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.”
Source: Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans
Source: The Last Fruit Off an Old Tree
“Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound.”
“The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.”
Source: Imaginary Conversations: Dialogues of sovereigns and statesmen. Dialogues of literary men
“Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.”