Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The very beautiful rarely love at all those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions: Time alone is permitted to efface them.
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
Images
Reach
Alone
Efface
Passion
Permitted
Beautiful
Placed
Time
Passions
Love
Rarely
Precious
More quotes by Walter Savage Landor
Cats like men are flatterers.
Walter Savage Landor
The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
Walter Savage Landor
Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
Walter Savage Landor
Principles do not mainly influence even the principled we talk on principle, but we act on interest.
Walter Savage Landor
How sweet and sacred idleness is!
Walter Savage Landor
The highest price we can pay for anything is to ask it.
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
Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.
Walter Savage Landor
We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
Walter Savage Landor
Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities.
Walter Savage Landor
In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.
Walter Savage Landor
Truth sometimes corner unawares upon Caution, and sometimes speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream.
Walter Savage Landor
Every good writer has much idiom it is the life and spirit of language.
Walter Savage Landor
We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it but we avoid such as differ from us.
Walter Savage Landor
My thoughts are my company I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
Walter Savage Landor
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
And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.
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
I would recommend a free commerce both of matter and mind. I would let men enter their own churches with the same freedom as their own houses and I would do it without a homily or graciousness or favor, for tyranny itself is to me a word less odious than toleration.
Walter Savage Landor
O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
Walter Savage Landor
