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Walter Savage Landor was an English writer known for his poetry and prose. His works are renowned for their wit, satire, and profound philosophical insights, which have had a lasting impact on literature.

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Famous Walter Savage Landor Quotes

“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.”

Wells Heart My Heart Conversation Dancing Dance Enjoyment Heart Ache

Book:The letters of Walter Savage Landor to Marguerite, Countess of Blessington

Source: The letters of Walter Savage Landor to Marguerite, Countess of Blessington

“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?”

Heart Models Intellect Dimensions Contracts Companionship

Book:Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans

Source: Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans

“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.”

Heart Reflection Arise Melancholy Gravity Tenderness Contractions

Book:The Works of Walter Savage Landor

Source: The Works of Walter Savage Landor

“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.”

Heart Lying Effects Produce Committed Commit Ingratitude

Book:The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].

Source: The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].

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

Heart Poetry Source Best Poetry

Book: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

Source: 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

“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.”

Heart Left Wish Imagination Poor Half Gone Instant Shutters

Book:Pericles and Aspasia

Source: Pericles and Aspasia

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

Heart Broken

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“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.”

Heart May Understanding Clear Conflict Judgment Argument Anger Guides Wit Heat Contests Animosity

Book:Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor

Source: Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor