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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A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
—Walter Savage Landor
Topics: One liners, Solitude, Audiences
We often say things because we can say them well, rather than because they are sound and reasonable.
—Walter Savage Landor
Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in its train excessive poverty, as where the sun is highest, the shade is deepest.
—Walter Savage Landor
Topics: Wealth
How sweet and sacred idleness is!
—Walter Savage Landor
Topics: Idleness
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
There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
—Walter Savage Landor
Topics: Humanity
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
—Walter Savage Landor
Topics: Ambition
We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.
—Walter Savage Landor
Topics: Acceptance, Necessity
Great men always pay deference to greater.
—Walter Savage Landor
Topics: Greatness, Greatness & Great Things
Products are made in the factory, but brands are created in the mind.
—Walter Savage Landor
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