29 Quotes & Sayings By Walter Savage Landor

Walter Savage Landor was born in London in 1775, the youngest of seven children of John Landor, a wine merchant. At an early age Walter was apprenticed to the engraver William Lower, who taught him engraving and etching. He also studied with John Flaxman, Arthur Devis, and G.F. Watts Read more

His engravings are highly regarded for their rich linework and for their stunning vignettes of classical scenes.

No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that...
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No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken. Walter Savage Landor
What is reading but silent conversation.
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What is reading but silent conversation. Walter Savage Landor
Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men...
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Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws. Walter Savage Landor
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The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow. Walter Savage Landor
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When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness. Walter Savage Landor
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Cats ask plainly for what they want. Walter Savage Landor
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Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library. Walter Savage Landor
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There is no easy path leading out of life and few are the easy ones that lie within it. Walter Savage Landor
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We cannot conquer fate and necessity yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could. Walter Savage Landor
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What is reading but silent conversation? Walter Savage Landor
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The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander. Walter Savage Landor
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Men like snails lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend. Walter Savage Landor
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A man's vanity tells him what is honour a man's conscience what is justice. Walter Savage Landor
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We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. Walter Savage Landor
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Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth. Walter Savage Landor
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As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable a more intimate one would be unsafe and unsatisfactory. Walter Savage Landor
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Men like nails lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend. Walter Savage Landor
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States like men have their growth their manhood their decrepitude their decay. Walter Savage Landor
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Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for. Walter Savage Landor
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Delay of justice is injustice. Walter Savage Landor
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Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition. Walter Savage Landor
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We talk on principle but we act on interest. Walter Savage Landor
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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. Walter Savage Landor
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The present like a note in music is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come. Walter Savage Landor
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven. Walter Savage Landor
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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him. Walter Savage Landor
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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
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love. Walter Savage Landor