264 Quotes by Walter Savage Landor

It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.

I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.

And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.

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.

It appears to be among the laws of nature, that the mighty of intellect should be pursued and carped by the little, as the solitary flight of one great bird is followed by the twittering petulance of many smaller.

Why cannot we be delighted with an author, and even feel a predilection for him, without a dislike of others? An admiration of Catullus or Virgil, of Tibullus or Ovid, is never to be heightened by a discharge of bile on Horace.

A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.

Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.

The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.