264 Quotes by Walter Savage Landor

The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

What is reading but silent conversation?

Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.

If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.

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.

Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.

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

Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding; and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery.