Quote

Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface historians delve too deep for them. No history was ever true. Lives I have read which, if they were not, had the appearance, the interest, and the utility of truth.

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
Read
Useful
Historians
Lives
Appearance
Utility
History
Surface
Biographies
True
Deep
Studies
Truth
Events
Delightful
Ever
Study
Historian
Great
Lying
Seeds
Delve
Interest
Near
Biography

More quotes by Walter Savage Landor

Image
That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away but, Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
Truth sometimes corner unawares upon Caution, and sometimes speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,--the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
I have since written what no tide Shall ever wash away, what men Unborn shall read o'er ocean wide And find Ianthe's name agen.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl no hatred so intense and immovable as that of woman for woman.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
How sweet and sacred idleness is!
Walter Savage Landor
Image
Principles do not mainly influence even the principled we talk on principle, but we act on interest.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
Delay in justice is injustice.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
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
Image
Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
Falsehood is for a season.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes without our knowledge, and goes without it.
Walter Savage Landor