Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities.
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
Thrive
Usually
Among
Politics
Political
Best
Inequalities
Men
Goats
Like
Inequality
More quotes by Walter Savage Landor
The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence.
Walter Savage Landor
We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.
Walter Savage Landor
Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear.
Walter Savage Landor
That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.
Walter Savage Landor
The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.
Walter Savage Landor
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
A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.
Walter Savage Landor
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
The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.
Walter Savage Landor
Circumstances form the character but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.
Walter Savage Landor
As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.
Walter Savage Landor
Every good writer has much idiom it is the life and spirit of language.
Walter Savage Landor
He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author.
Walter Savage Landor
Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive imagination, not seldom, is sedate.
Walter Savage Landor
If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt, if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius and Fancy herself would lie muffled up in her robe, inactive, pale, and bloated.
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
We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
Walter Savage Landor
Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.
Walter Savage Landor
Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.
Walter Savage Landor
Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery.
Walter Savage Landor
