264 Quotes by Walter Savage Landor

Dying Speech of an Old PhilosopherI strove with none, for none was worth my strife.Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art:I warm'd both hands before the fire of life;It sinks; and I am ready to depart.

What is reading but silent conversation.

No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken,Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.

When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.

Cats, like men, are flatterers.

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.

The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.

Cats ask plainly for what they want.