English writer and poet (1775-1864)
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend: such nails are then thrown into the dust or into the furnace.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
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Imaginary Conversations
As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
Pericles and Aspasia
We talk on principle, but we act on interest.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen
There is only one word of tenderness we could say, which we have not said oftentimes before ; and there is no consolation in it. The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
Pericles and Aspasia
Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable; less ordinary, pleasant; novel and ingenious ones, delightful.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
Aphorisms
A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
Imaginary Conversations