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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

“Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.”

May Sometimes Steps Pace

Book:Imaginary Conversations

Source: Imaginary Conversations

“Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind; none of them surely for our admiration.”

Sometimes Mankind Hero Ambition Admiration Famine Avarice Chastisement Pestilence Stilts

Book:Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)

“We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above; sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in moroseness and discontent.”

Thinking Sometimes Sorrow Fancy Affliction Discontent Piety Contrition

Author:Walter Savage Landor

“Truth sometimes corner unawares upon Caution, and sometimes speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream.”

Sometimes Dream Truth Speak Corners Caution

Author:Walter Savage Landor

“I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the conquest of Persia to the Macedonian.”

Thinking Sometimes Joy Composer Conquest Duration Persia

Author:Walter Savage Landor