264 Quotes by Walter Savage Landor

Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.

Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other faces;Pride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.

What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller?

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.

When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus!

Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.

Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant or upon one of ordinary size.

Virtue is presupposed in friendship.

How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of absence to which we owe such delight.