264 Quotes by Walter Savage Landor

I see the rainbow in the sky, the dew upon the grass; I see them, and I ask not why they glimmer or they pass. With folded arms I linger not to call them back; ’twere vain: In this, or in some other spot, I know they’ll shine again.

A man’s vanity tells him what is honor, a man’s conscience what is justice.

The heart that once has been bathed in love’s pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.

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.

Piety – warm, soft, and passive as the ether round the throne of Grace – is made callous and inactive by kneeling too much.

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

Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world’s.

It is delightful to kiss the eyelashes of the beloved – is it not? But never so delightful as when fresh tears are on them.

God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers O’er the wide earth, and tells us all are ours. A hundred lights in every temple burn, And at each shrine I bend my knee in turn.