Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
Walter Savage Landor
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Walter Savage Landor
Age: 89 †
Born: 1775
Born: January 30
Died: 1864
Died: September 17
Poet
Writer
Warwick
Warwickshire
Happy
Makes
Doe
Make
Fierce
Good
Goodness
Men
Certainly
Joy
Happiness
More quotes by Walter Savage Landor
I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the conquest of Persia to the Macedonian.
Walter Savage Landor
The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.
Walter Savage Landor
A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.
Walter Savage Landor
Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's.
Walter Savage Landor
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
Walter Savage Landor
I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.
Walter Savage Landor
That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.
Walter Savage Landor
A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.
Walter Savage Landor
A great man knows the value of greatness he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.
Walter Savage Landor
We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
Walter Savage Landor
The highest price we can pay for anything is to ask it.
Walter Savage Landor
No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
Walter Savage Landor
Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man it is his love.
Walter Savage Landor
Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language.
Walter Savage Landor
It appears to be among the laws of nature, that the mighty of intellect should be pursued and carped by the little, as the solitary flight of one great bird is followed by the twittering petulance of many smaller.
Walter Savage Landor
How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of absence to which we owe such delight.
Walter Savage Landor
The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.
Walter Savage Landor
How sweet and sacred idleness is!
Walter Savage Landor
Cats like men are flatterers.
Walter Savage Landor
Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.
Walter Savage Landor
