Search quotes by author:    A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 


Walter Savage Landor Quotes


No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

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.

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

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

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

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

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

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

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

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

We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.