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
kindness littles shy
A little praise is good for a shy temper; it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others.
perseverance men littles
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.
greatness men littles
Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.
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.
women littles matter
When a woman hath ceased to be quite the same to us, it matters little how different she becomes.
politics argument truth-prevails
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
stupid practice religion
The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.
We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
fading grave power rest transient
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
mind
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
easy few leading life within
There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.
ridicule
Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.
teacher war experience
Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.