110+ Walter Savage Landor Quotes On Slavery, Education And Religion

Walter Savage Landor was an English poet, writer, and scholar from Warwick. He was known for his style of writing which combined classical and romantic ideas. He is best known for his prose works such as Imaginary Conversations and his poem Rose Aylmer. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Walter Savage Landor on slavery, life, education.

Top 10 Walter Savage Landor Quotes

1. There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
2. The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.
3. People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
4. My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
5. A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
6. We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
7. 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.
8. We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.
9. The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
10. The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Walter Savage Landor Short Quotes

• What is reading, but silent conversation.
• Great men always pay deference to greater.
• We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
• Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
• In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
• I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
• Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.
• Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.
• Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.
• When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.

Walter Savage Landor Quotes About Life

Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away, or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it; and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood, of those who press earnestly upon it. — Walter Savage Landor

Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language. — Walter Savage Landor

The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow. — Walter Savage Landor

Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable; less ordinary, pleasant; novel and ingenious ones, delightful. As pictures and statues, and living beauty, too, show better by music-light, so is poetry irradiated, vivified, glorified', and raised into immortal life by harmony. — Walter Savage Landor

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present. — Walter Savage Landor

Life is but sighs; and, when they cease, 'tis over. — Walter Savage Landor

Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason. — Walter Savage Landor

Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else; and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes without our knowledge, and goes without it. — Walter Savage Landor

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart. — 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. — Walter Savage Landor

Walter Savage Landor Quotes About Religion

Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy: on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most so about their inheritance. — Walter Savage Landor

The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,--the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will. — Walter Savage Landor

The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue. — Walter Savage Landor

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce. — Walter Savage Landor

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him. — Walter Savage Landor

Walter Savage Landor Quotes About Love

We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love. — Walter Savage Landor

We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love. — Walter Savage Landor

Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love. — Walter Savage Landor

The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over. — Walter Savage Landor

Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their self-love. — Walter Savage Landor

The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever. — Walter Savage Landor

Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love. — Walter Savage Landor

I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart. — Walter Savage Landor

Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace; and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest. — Walter Savage Landor

There is a vast deal of vital air in loving words. — Walter Savage Landor

Walter Savage Landor Quotes About Happy

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good. — Walter Savage Landor

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented. — Walter Savage Landor

Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly; but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory. — Walter Savage Landor

We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity; for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment; the course is then over, the wheel turns round but once, while the reaction of goodness and happiness is perpetual. — Walter Savage Landor

The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell. — Walter Savage Landor

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

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. — Walter Savage Landor

The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman. — Walter Savage Landor

Walter Savage Landor Quotes About Death

Absence and death are the same -- only that in death there is no suffering. — Walter Savage Landor

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. — Walter Savage Landor

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet. — Walter Savage Landor

Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void. — Walter Savage Landor

Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear; Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear. — Walter Savage Landor

Walter Savage Landor Famous Quotes And Sayings

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end. — Walter Savage Landor

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. — Walter Savage Landor

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven. — Walter Savage Landor

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age. — Walter Savage Landor

It is delightful to kiss the eyelashes of the beloved--is it not? But never so delightful as when fresh tears are on them. — Walter Savage Landor

The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional. — Walter Savage Landor

Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one — Walter Savage Landor

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose. — Walter Savage Landor

When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home. — Walter Savage Landor

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. — Walter Savage Landor

It appears to be among the laws of nature, that the mighty of intellect should be pursued and carped by the little, as the solitary flight of one great bird is followed by the twittering petulance of many smaller. — Walter Savage Landor

He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt. — Walter Savage Landor

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable. — Walter Savage Landor

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. — Walter Savage Landor

A little praise is good for a shy temper; it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others. — Walter Savage Landor

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour. — Walter Savage Landor

How sweet and sacred idleness is! — Walter Savage Landor

Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities. — Walter Savage Landor

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone. — 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. — Walter Savage Landor

Fame often rests at first upon something accidental, and often, too, is swept away, or for a time removed; but neither genius nor glory, is conferred at once, nor do they glimmer and fall, like drops in a grotto, at a shout. — Walter Savage Landor

Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our nature, one would imagine we were dragging Time along by force, and not he us. — Walter Savage Landor

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. — Walter Savage Landor

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. — Walter Savage Landor

Falsehood is for a season. — Walter Savage Landor

Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for. — Walter Savage Landor

But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace-porch, where when unyoked chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave: Shake one, and it awakens; then apply Its polisht lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there. — Walter Savage Landor

The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great. — Walter Savage Landor

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander. — Walter Savage Landor

Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude. — Walter Savage Landor

You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married. — Walter Savage Landor

It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires. — Walter Savage Landor

There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it. — Walter Savage Landor

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. — Walter Savage Landor

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

Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away; but, Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet. — Walter Savage Landor

A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches. — Walter Savage Landor

O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream. — Walter Savage Landor

Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation. — Walter Savage Landor

Consult duty not events. — Walter Savage Landor

Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more. — Walter Savage Landor

Greatness, as we daily see it, is unsociable. — Walter Savage Landor

Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand. — Walter Savage Landor

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. — Walter Savage Landor

In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing. — Walter Savage Landor

The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's. — 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. — Walter Savage Landor

There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul. — Walter Savage Landor

Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world. — Walter Savage Landor

Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place. — Walter Savage Landor

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. — Walter Savage Landor

The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence. — Walter Savage Landor

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. — Walter Savage Landor

Wise or unwise, who doubts for a moment that contentment is the cause of happiness? Yet the inverse is true: we are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. Well-regulated minds may be satisfied with a small portion of happiness; none can be happy with a small portion of content. — 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. — Walter Savage Landor

Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels. — Walter Savage Landor

Moroseness is the evening of turbulence. — Walter Savage Landor

He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt. The most sparkling and pointed flame of wit flickers and expires against the incombustible walls of her sanctuary. — Walter Savage Landor

He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author. — Walter Savage Landor

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. — Walter Savage Landor

It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty. — Walter Savage Landor

True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another. — Walter Savage Landor

Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's. — Walter Savage Landor

The sublime is contained in a grain of dust. — Walter Savage Landor

Avoid, which many grave men have not done, words taken from sacred subjects and from elevated poetry: these we have seen vilely prostituted. Avoid too the society of the barbarians who misemploy them. — Walter Savage Landor

Justice is often pale and melancholy; but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness. — Walter Savage Landor

Life Lessons by Walter Savage Landor

1. Walter Savage Landor teaches us to be brave and determined in the face of adversity. He encourages us to never give up, even when the odds are against us, and to have faith in ourselves and our abilities.
2. He also reminds us of the importance of living life to the fullest and to not take our time here for granted. He encourages us to make the most of every moment and to never be afraid to take risks and explore new opportunities.
3. Lastly, Landor encourages us to stay true to ourselves and to never compromise our values and beliefs. He reminds us that having a strong sense of self is essential for leading a fulfilling and meaningful life.