Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an author. But he is worse than too severe when, in consequence of this detection, be presumes to place himself on a level with genius.
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
Level
Detection
Genius
Critic
Levels
Severe
Place
Author
Never
Faults
Critics
Consequence
Detects
Worse
Presumes
More quotes by Walter Savage Landor
How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of absence to which we owe such delight.
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
Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant or upon one of ordinary size.
Walter Savage Landor
Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.
Walter Savage Landor
Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are the turbid look the most profound.
Walter Savage Landor
Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest harder than adamant never to be broken, worn away, or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood, of those who press earnestly upon it.
Walter Savage Landor
The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
Walter Savage Landor
Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.
Walter Savage Landor
He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt.
Walter Savage Landor
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
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
Contentment is better than divinations or visions.
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
There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
Walter Savage Landor
But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace-porch, where when unyoked chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave: Shake one, and it awakens then apply Its polisht lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.
Walter Savage Landor
Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.
Walter Savage Landor
We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment the course is then over, the wheel turns round but once, while the reaction of goodness and happiness is perpetual.
Walter Savage Landor
There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.
Walter Savage Landor
The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.
Walter Savage Landor
Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our nature, one would imagine we were dragging Time along by force, and not he us.
Walter Savage Landor
