Walter Savage Landor Quotes About Fame

Quotes about: Fame

• As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Obscurity, Shells, Pearls

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.55

• Fame often rests at first upon something accidental, and often, too, is swept away, or for a time removed; but neither genius nor glory, is conferred at once, nor do they glimmer and fall, like drops in a grotto, at a shout.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Fall, Genius, Firsts

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.43

• Fame, they tell you, is air; but without air there is no life for any; without fame there is none for the best.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Air, Fame

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.247

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