Walter Savage Landor Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Offending, Flattery, Language

• Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear; Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Fear, Ears, Whispering

  'Death stands above me' (1853)

• Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Country, Law, Next

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Last Fruit Off an Old Tree”, p.113

• Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Style, Spirit, Language

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.159

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