11 Quotes By Walter Savage Landor


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

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
Walter Savage Landor on anger

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
Walter Savage Landor on art

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.
Walter Savage Landor on future

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
Walter Savage Landor on happiness

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
Walter Savage Landor on happiness

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
Walter Savage Landor on music

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
Walter Savage Landor on poetry

In argument, truth always prevails finally in politics, falsehood always.
Walter Savage Landor on politics

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.
Walter Savage Landor on religion

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
Walter Savage Landor on religion