264 Quotes by Walter Savage Landor

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may.

Truth sometimes corner unawares upon Caution, and sometimes speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.

Kings play at war unfairly with republics; they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in every soldier a part of themselves.

I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the conquest of Persia to the Macedonian.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.