Quote

Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.

Walter Savage Landor

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Walter Savage Landor
Age: 89 †
Born: 1775
Born: January 30
Died: 1864
Died: September 17
Poet
Writer
Warwick
Warwickshire
Writing
Fairs
Going
Fair
Never
Field
Like
Fields
Move
Moving
Butting
Another
Cattle
Without
Authors

More quotes by Walter Savage Landor

Image
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
Image
Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive imagination, not seldom, is sedate.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of his life.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
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
Image
Fame, they tell you, is air but without air there is no life for any without fame there is none for the best.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
Vast objects of remote altitude must be looked at a long while before they are ascertained. Ages are the telescope tubes that must be lengthened out for Shakespeare and generations of men serve but a single witness to his claims.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us ordinary men gain much.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy: on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most so about their inheritance.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
It often comes into my head That we may dream when we are dead, But I am far from sure we do. O that it were so! then my rest Would be indeed among the blest I should for ever dream of you.
Walter Savage Landor