Walter Savage Landor
Walter Savage Landor
Walter Savage Landorwas an English writer and poet. His best known works were the prose Imaginary Conversations, and the poem Rose Aylmer, but the critical acclaim he received from contemporary poets and reviewers was not matched by public popularity. As remarkable as his work was, it was equalled by his rumbustious character and lively temperament...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth30 January 1775
country law next
Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language.
fall men wit
True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.
motivation principal
We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
death life-and-death dying
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.
mind criticism praise
An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
poverty wealth train
Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.
greatness men pay
Great men always pay deference to greater.
ambition rocks substance
Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.
thinking justice stupidity
There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from us.
nature future littles
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
anger men overcoming
If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.
kindness real cat
When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.
heart broken
No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
music sight singing
There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.