Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) was an English writer, poet, and activist. His best known works were the prose Imaginary Conversations, and the poem Rose Aylmer, but the critical acclaim he received from contemporary poets and reviewers was not matched by public popularity. As remarkable as his work was, it was equalled by his rumbustious character and lively temperament. Both his writing and political activism, such as his support for Lajos Kossuth and Giuseppe Garibaldi, were imbued with his passion for liberal and republican causes. He befriended and influenced the next generation of literary reformers such as Charles Dickens and Robert Browning.
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Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
—Walter Savage Landor
Topics: Kindness
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
Topics: Music
Consult duty, not events.
—Walter Savage Landor
Topics: Duty, Events
Joining in the amusements of others is, in our social state, the next thing to sympathy in their distresses, and even the slenderest bond that holds society together should rather be strengthened than snapt.
—Walter Savage Landor
There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
—Walter Savage Landor
Topics: Humanity
He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt. The most sparkling and pointed flame of wit flickers and expires against the incombustible walls of her sanctuary.
—Walter Savage Landor
The habitude of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional
—Walter Savage Landor
Topics: Flattery
My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
—Walter Savage Landor
Topics: Thinking, Thought, Thoughts
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
—Walter Savage Landor
I should entertain a mean opinion of myself if all men, or the most part, praised and admired me; it would prove me to be somewhat like them.
—Walter Savage Landor
Topics: Praise
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