Quotes by Walter Savage Landor

Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.

Delay of justice is injustice.

Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.

We talk on principle but we act on interest.

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

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

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

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.

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

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