264 Quotes by Walter Savage Landor

O what a thing is age! Death without death’s quiet.

Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one.

Not dancing well, I never danced at all – and how grievously has my heart ached when others where in the full enjoyment of that conversation which I had no right even to partake.

The religion of Christ is peace and good-will, – the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will.

The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot’s.

Life is but sighs; and, when they cease, ’tis over.

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.

One single feather crushes the whole swarm.