Walter Savage Landor Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Anger, Heart, Understanding

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.242

• In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship; in the hours of gladness and conviviality, what is our want? It is friendship. When the heart overflows with gratitude, or with any other sweet or sacred sentiment, what is the word to which it would give utterance? A friend.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Gratitude, Sweet, Heart

• No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Heart, Broken

  Walter Savage Landor (1969). “Poems”

• There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart: but arises from tenderness and hangs upon reflection.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Heart, Reflection, Melancholy

  Walter Savage Landor (1846). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.114

• The worse of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Lying, Heart, Produce

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.524

• That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Heart, Poetry, Source

  Walter Savage Landor (1834). “Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, Euseby Treen, Joseph Carnaby and Silas Gough, Clerk: Before the Worshipful Sir Thomas Lucy, Knight, Touching Deer-stealing on the 19th Day of September in the Year of Grace 1582, Now First Published from Original Papers”, p.177

• We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Heart, Imagination, Wish

  Walter Savage Landor (1836). “Pericles and Aspasia”, p.225

• The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Love, Heart, Forever

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.159

• Not dancing well, I never danced at all--and how grievously has my heart ached when others where in the full enjoyment of that conversation which I had no right even to partake.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Dance, Heart, Dancing

  Walter Savage Landor, Marguerite Blessington (Countess of), John Francis Mariani (1973). “The letters of Walter Savage Landor to Marguerite, Countess of Blessington”

• What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller?

  Walter Savage Landor

  Heart, Dimensions, Companionship

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.94

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