Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Every witticism is an inexact thought that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.
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
Inexact
Every
Witticism
Imperfectly
Wit
Witty
Perfectly
True
Thought
More quotes by Walter Savage Landor
Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.
Walter Savage Landor
Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear.
Walter Savage Landor
I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
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
Contentment is better than divinations or visions.
Walter Savage Landor
We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.
Walter Savage Landor
In argument, truth always prevails finally in politics, falsehood always.
Walter Savage Landor
I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.
Walter Savage Landor
When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.
Walter Savage Landor
We care not how many see us in choler, when we rave and bluster, and make as much noise and bustle as we can but if the kindest and most generous affection comes across us, we suppress every sign of it, and hide ourselves in nooks and covert.
Walter Savage Landor
My thoughts are my company I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
Walter Savage Landor
Life is but sighs and, when they cease, 'tis over.
Walter Savage Landor
I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.
Walter Savage Landor
O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
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
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
Walter Savage Landor
Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities.
Walter Savage Landor
There is only one word of tenderness we could say, which we have not said oftentimes before and there is no consolation in it. The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
Walter Savage Landor
Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence.
Walter Savage Landor
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
