Quotes by : Walter Savage Landor

We talk on principle but we act on interest.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

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

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

States like men have their growth their manhood their decrepitude their decay.

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

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

When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.