Quote

Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive imagination, not seldom, is sedate.

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
Sedate
Adolescence
Seldom
Fancy
Youth
Imagination
Always

More quotes by Walter Savage Landor

Image
The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once it can never be trusted after.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
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
Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are the turbid look the most profound.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.
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
Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us ordinary men gain much.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
Not dancing well, I never danced at all--and how grievously has my heart ached when others where in the full enjoyment of that conversation which I had no right even to partake.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
My thoughts are my company I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one
Walter Savage Landor
Image
Happiness, like air and water, the other two great requisites of life, is composite. One kind of it suits one man, another kind another. The elevated mind takes in and breathes out again that which would be uncongenial to the baser and the baser draws life and enjoyment from that which would be putridity to the loftier.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
Cats ask plainly for what they want.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.
Walter Savage Landor
Image
Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
Walter Savage Landor