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Walter Savage Landor Quotes

«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»
Author: Walter Savage Landor (Writer) | About: Failure | Keywords: calamitous, detailed, drawn-out, mishap, Mishaps, witticism, witticisms
«Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.»
Author: Walter Savage Landor (Writer) | About: Men | Keywords: nails, usefulness
«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.»
Author: Walter Savage Landor (Writer) | About: Prose | Keywords: on the other hand, swoon, swooned, swooning, swoons
«We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.»
Author: Walter Savage Landor (Writer) | Keywords: contented
«The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.»
Author: Walter Savage Landor (Writer) | Keywords: squander
«No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.»
Author: Walter Savage Landor (Writer) | Keywords: occupied
«Consult duty not events.»
Author: Walter Savage Landor (Writer) | Keywords: consult
«An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.»
Author: Walter Savage Landor (Writer) | Keywords: ingenuous, reproof, unmerited
«Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.»
Author: Walter Savage Landor (Writer) | Keywords: in practice
«Proud word you never spoke, but you will speak / Four not exempt from pride some future day. / Resting on one white hand a warm wet cheek / Over my open volume you will say, / `This man loved me!' then rise and trip away.»
Author: Walter Savage Landor (Writer) | Keywords: cheek, future day, resting, spoke, volume
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