Cats like men are flatterers. Walter Savage Landor More Quotes by Walter Savage Landor More Quotes From Walter Savage Landor The worse of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed. Walter Savage Landor produce heart lying Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may. Walter Savage Landor treats may history Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void. Walter Savage Landor headstone void space Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings; compassion, in the first instance, is good for both; I have known it to bring compunction when nothing else would. Walter Savage Landor cuckoos compassion suffering What is reading but silent conversation? Walter Savage Landor library reading book Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess. Walter Savage Landor juice excess men We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love. Walter Savage Landor suffering self reality Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend. Walter Savage Landor kwanzaa nails men Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty. Walter Savage Landor wealth poverty train The very beautiful rarely love at all; those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions: Time alone is permitted to efface them. Walter Savage Landor alone-time passion beautiful Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction; before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed. Walter Savage Landor oil wine spring I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together. Walter Savage Landor misery dancing together There is only one word of tenderness we could say, which we have not said oftentimes before ; and there is no consolation in it. The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell. Walter Savage Landor consolation farewell said When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home. Walter Savage Landor mind home feelings When a woman hath ceased to be quite the same to us, it matters little how different she becomes. Walter Savage Landor women different littles Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws. Walter Savage Landor law-and-justice law men Justice is often pale and melancholy; but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness. Walter Savage Landor gratitude daughter justice 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 shells obscurity pearls Great men always pay deference to greater. Walter Savage Landor greatness pay men Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language. Walter Savage Landor next law country
