“This is the pleasantest part of life. Oblivion throws her light coverlet over our infancy; and, soon after we are out of the cradle we forget how soundly we had been slumbering, and how delightful were our dreams. Toil and pleasure contend for us almost the instant we rise from it: and weariness follows whichever has carried us away. We stop awhile, look around us, wonder to find we have completed the circle of existence, fold our arms, and fall asleep again.”
Quote by Walter Savage Landor
“Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of his life.”
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
“Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction; before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.”
“Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's.”
Source: Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)
“To my ninth decade I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady; She, who once led me where she would, is gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready.”
Source: Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor
“Other offences, even the greatest, are the violation of one law: despotism is the violation of all.”
Source: Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen
“It often comes into my head That we may dream when we are dead, But I am far from sure we do. O that it were so! then my rest Would be indeed among the blest; I should for ever dream of you.”
Source: Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)
“Ah what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes May weep, but never see, A night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee.”
“There is only one word of tenderness we could say, which we have not said oftentimes before ; and there is no consolation in it. The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.”
Source: The Works of Walter Savage Landor
“Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression; and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence.”
Source: Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen
“I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.”
Source: The letters of Walter Savage Landor to Marguerite, Countess of Blessington
