Walter Savage Landor Quotes

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Walter Savage Landor

Profession : Poet

Birth : January 30, 1775

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

Walter Savage Landor

There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.

Walter Savage Landor

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.

Walter Savage Landor

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

Walter Savage Landor

Consult duty not events.

Walter Savage Landor

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

Walter Savage Landor

I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.

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

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

Walter Savage Landor

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Walter Savage Landor

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Walter Savage Landor

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Walter Savage Landor

There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.

Walter Savage Landor