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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

“As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.”

Ifs Way Sometimes One Thing My Way Contentment

Book:Pericles and Aspasia

Source: Pericles and Aspasia

“We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.”

Ifs Greater Fate Acceptance Conquer Yield Resignation

Book:Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor

Source: Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor

“Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians delve too deep for them. No history was ever true. Lives I have read which, if they were not, had the appearance, the interest, and the utility of truth.”

Ifs Lying Interest Study Events Appearance Surface Seeds Historian Biographies Delightful Utility True Life Too Deep Great Events

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

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

“Cruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the greatest of all; if we consider it as a madness, we are equally justifiable in applying to it the readiest and the surest means of oppression.”

Ifs Mean Crime Madness Cruelty Oppression

Author:Walter Savage Landor

“Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom; but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if folly and imprudence are the same.”

Ifs Want Rooms Folly Suspicion Politeness

Book:Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor

Source: Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor

“Let me take up your metaphor. Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat or violence or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after. The more graceful and ornamental it was, the more clearly do we discern the hopelessness of restoring it to its former state. Coarse stones, if they are fractured, may be cemented again; precious stones, never.”

Ifs Wells May States Friendship Violence Broken Stones Let Me Metaphor Accidents Former Heat Trusted Hopelessness Flawed Restoring Coarse Vases Precious Stones

Book:The Works of Walter Savage Landor

Source: The Works of Walter Savage Landor

“Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among men, will not condemn to death him who has done or is likely to do more service than injury to society. Blocks and gibbets are the nearest objects with legislators, and their business is never with hopes or with virtues.”

Ifs Men Should Done Virtue Wise Objects Worthy Punishment Arise Block Injury Preservation Legislators Dispassionate

Book: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

Source: 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

“We care not how many see us in choler, when we rave and bluster, and make as much noise and bustle as we can; but if the kindest and most generous affection comes across us, we suppress every sign of it, and hide ourselves in nooks and covert.”

Ifs Care Affection Noise Generous Sensibility Rave Covert Bustle Bluster

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

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

“If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.”

Ifs Men Argument Overcoming Anger Angry Rage

Book:Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans

Source: Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans

“An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.”

Ifs Feels Mind Accepting Praise Unhappy Rejects Undone Reproof

Book:The Works of Walter Savage Landor

Source: The Works of Walter Savage Landor