Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude. Walter Savage Landor More Quotes by Walter Savage Landor More Quotes From Walter Savage Landor No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable. Walter Savage Landor miserablepersonsfound Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason. Walter Savage Landor afterlifebelieflife-is 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 would-beappreciationmen The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it. Walter Savage Landor ascendingrocksworld He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author. Walter Savage Landor nextcriticismbook 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 flowersoulcities Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy. Walter Savage Landor envymoralityspeak A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune. Walter Savage Landor philosopherfortune Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for. Walter Savage Landor greatnesslittlesmen True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another. Walter Savage Landor witmenfall Ah what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes May weep, but never see, A night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee. Walter Savage Landor eyenightmemories The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's. Walter Savage Landor eyecriticismsides Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's. Walter Savage Landor poetworld O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream. Walter Savage Landor sacredmusicgrieving Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself. Walter Savage Landor sculpturepaintingpoetry Every witticism is an inexact thought; that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty. Walter Savage Landor witwitty 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 donetakenmen 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 vasesviolencebroken 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 contentmentsometimesway This is the pleasantest part of life. Oblivion throws her light coverlet over our infancy; and, soon after we are out of the cradle we forget how soundly we had been slumbering, and how delightful were our dreams. Toil and pleasure contend for us almost the instant we rise from it: and weariness follows whichever has carried us away. We stop awhile, look around us, wonder to find we have completed the circle of existence, fold our arms, and fall asleep again. Walter Savage Landor lightdreamfall
