264 Quotes by Walter Savage Landor

We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.

We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.

When a woman hath ceased to be quite the same to us, it matters little how different she becomes.

The assailant is often in the right; the assailed is always.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.

This is the pleasantest part of life. Oblivion throws her light coverlet over our infancy; and, soon after we are out of the cradle we forget how soundly we had been slumbering, and how delightful were our dreams. Toil and pleasure contend for us almost the instant we rise from it: and weariness follows whichever has carried us away. We stop awhile, look around us, wonder to find we have completed the circle of existence, fold our arms, and fall asleep again.