Author: Walter Savage Landor

Quotes

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

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

- Walter Savage Landor

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

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

- Walter Savage Landor

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

- Walter Savage Landor

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.

- Walter Savage Landor

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

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

- Walter Savage Landor

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

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

- Walter Savage Landor

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

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

- Walter Savage Landor

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

- 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.

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

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