Quotes by : Walter Savage Landor

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

A man's vanity tells him what is honour a man's conscience what is justice.

As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them....

Men like snails lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

What is reading but silent conversation.

Cats ask plainly for what they want.

Men like nails lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

There is no easy path leading out of life and few are the easy ones that lie within it.

What is reading but silent conversation?

Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.