Walter Savage Landor Quotes About Greatness

Quotes about: Greatness

• Great men always pay deference to greater.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Greatness, Men, Pay

• Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Greatness, Men, Ordinary

  Walter Savage Landor (1883). “Classical dialogues, Greek and Roman”

• A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Greatness, Men, Hazards

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.365

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

  Walter Savage Landor

  Greatness, Men, Littles

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.110

• Greatness, as we daily see it, is unsociable.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Greatness

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.154

• It appears to be among the laws of nature, that the mighty of intellect should be pursued and carped by the little, as the solitary flight of one great bird is followed by the twittering petulance of many smaller.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Greatness, Law, Bird

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.166

• The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Kings, Greatness, Pedestal

  Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.313

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