Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Fame often rests at first upon something accidental, and often, too, is swept away, or for a time removed but neither genius nor glory, is conferred at once, nor do they glimmer and fall, like drops in a grotto, at a shout.
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
Firsts
Neither
Glimmer
First
Fame
Conferred
Something
Glory
Accidental
Time
Genius
Swept
Like
Upon
Drops
Often
Shout
Fall
Rests
Away
Removed
More quotes by Walter Savage Landor
Democracy is always the work of kings. Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilize the land they are cast upon.
Walter Savage Landor
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
Walter Savage Landor
I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.
Walter Savage Landor
There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.
Walter Savage Landor
Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.
Walter Savage Landor
Great men always pay deference to greater.
Walter Savage Landor
Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are the turbid look the most profound.
Walter Savage Landor
Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.
Walter Savage Landor
The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
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
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.
Walter Savage Landor
Piety--warm, soft, and passive as the ether round the throne of Grace--is made callous and inactive by kneeling too much.
Walter Savage Landor
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.
Walter Savage Landor
Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.
Walter Savage Landor
There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart: but arises from tenderness and hangs upon reflection.
Walter Savage Landor
No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
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
Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs they also make him unfit for brothels.
Walter Savage Landor
Every good writer has much idiom it is the life and spirit of language.
Walter Savage Landor
Avoid, which many grave men have not done, words taken from sacred subjects and from elevated poetry: these we have seen vilely prostituted. Avoid too the society of the barbarians who misemploy them.
Walter Savage Landor