Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs they also make him unfit for brothels.
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
Public
Also
Make
Diffidence
Men
Brothels
Unfit
Modesty
Affairs
Affair
More quotes by Walter Savage Landor
Democracy is always the work of kings. Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilize the land they are cast upon.
Walter Savage Landor
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
There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
Walter Savage Landor
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
Walter Savage Landor
Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
Walter Savage Landor
We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.
Walter Savage Landor
I warmed both hands before the fire of life It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
Walter Savage Landor
Every witticism is an inexact thought that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.
Walter Savage Landor
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.
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.
Walter Savage Landor
The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's.
Walter Savage Landor
Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.
Walter Savage Landor
Cats ask plainly for what they want.
Walter Savage Landor
Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more.
Walter Savage Landor
Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.
Walter Savage Landor
We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
Walter Savage Landor
A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.
Walter Savage Landor
And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.
Walter Savage Landor
Principles do not mainly influence even the principled we talk on principle, but we act on interest.
Walter Savage Landor
Virtue is presupposed in friendship.
Walter Savage Landor
