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They would fight not for articles of faith, but for articles of food.
Walter Savage Landor
Poet and prose writer, 1775-1864
Cited as Landor. — 81 quotations
Absence
To conquer that abstraction which is called absence.
Age
I am aging; that is, I have a whitish, or rather a light-colored, hair here and there.
Agiotage
Vanity and agiotage are to a Parisian the oxygen and hydrogen of life.
Agnate
Assume more or less of a fictitious character, but congenial and agnate with the former.
Anarchal
We are in the habit of calling those bodies of men anarchal which are in a state of effervescence.
Animation
Perhaps an inanimate thing supplies me, while I am speaking, with whatever I possess of animation.
Arbitrary
Rank pretends to fix the value of every one, and is the most arbitrary of all things.
Askance
My palfrey eyed them askance.
Aulic
Ecclesiastical wealth and aulic dignities.
Built
Like the generality of Genoese countrywomen, strongly built.
Certainty
Certainties are uninteresting and sating.
Chouse
The undertaker of the afore-cited poesy hath choused your highness.
Composite
Happiness, like air and water . . . is composite.
Creation
An Irish peer of recent creation.
Cub
I would rather have such . . . .in cub or kennel than in my closet or at my table.
Device
I must have instruments of my own device.
Diaphanous
Another cloud in the region of them, light enough to be fantastic and diaphanous.
Drawl
Theologians and moralists . . . talk mostly in a drawling and dreaming way about it.
Essence
The laws are at present, both in form and essence, the greatest curse that society labors under.
Evangile
Above all, the Servians . . . read, with much avidity, the evangile of their freedom.
Extraneous
Nothing is admitted extraneous from the indictment.
Forefend
God forefend it should ever be recorded in our history.
Frame
We may in some measure frame our minds for the reception of happiness.
Fresh
A fresh pleasure in every fresh posture of the limbs.
Generality
Let us descend from generalities to particulars.
Guttural
In such a sweet, guttural accent.
Habitude
The verdict of the judges was biased by nothing else than their habitudes of thinking.
Harbinger
I knew by these harbingers who were coming.
Hazard
They hazard to cut their feet.
Hypallage
The hypallage, of which Virgil is fonder than any other writer, is much the gravest fault in language.
Idiom
Every good writer has much idiom.
Inanition
Feeble from inanition, inert from weariness.
Insuetude
Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.
Insult
An unwillingness to insult over their helpless fatuity.
Left-handed
The commendations of this people are not always left-handed and detractive.
Light
His bishops lead him forth, and light him on.
Literate
The literate now chose their emperor, as the military chose theirs.
Machine
The whole machine of government ought not to bear upon the people with a weight so heavy and oppressive.
Modus
They, from time immemorial, had paid a modus, or composition.
Mote
We are motes in the midst of generations.
Mother
I behold . . . the solitary majesty of Crete, mother of a religion, it is said, that lived two thousand years.
Objurgation
With a strong objurgation of the elbow in his ribs.
Obligate
That they may not incline or be obligated to any vile or lowly occupations.
Opposite
The virtuous man meets with more opposites and opponents than any other.
Penury
It arises in neither from penury of thought.
Practice
In church they are taught to love God; after church they are practiced to love their neighbor.
Prone
Poets are nearly all prone to melancholy.
Protest
He protest that his measures are pacific.
Quite
He really looks quite concerned.
Reclamation
I would now, on the reclamation both of generosity and of justice, try clemency.
Retrospect
We may introduce a song without retrospect to the old comedy.
Scientific
Bossuet is as scientific in the structure of his sentences.
Second
May the day when we become the second people upon earth . . . be the day of our utter extirpation.
Seed
Many interests have grown up, and seeded, and twisted their roots in the crevices of many wrongs.
Sermonize
Which of us shall sing or sermonize the other fast asleep?
Short
Hardly anything short of an invasion could rouse them again to war.
Side
We have not always been of the . . . same side in politics.
Signification
A signification of being pleased.
Slink
There were some few who slank obliquely from them as they passed.
Snift
It now appears that they were still snifing and hankering after their old quarters.
Speck
Many bright specks bubble up along the blue Egean.
Stilt
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
Stop
If his sentences were properly stopped.
Strain
Whether any poet of our country since Shakespeare has exerted a greater variety of powers with less strain and less ostentation.
Strike
How often has stricken you dumb with his irony!
Suckle
They are not weak, suckled by Wisdom.
Supplant
You never will supplant the received ideas of God.
Swell
The swell and subsidence of his periods.
Tiff
She tiffed with Tim, she ran from Ralph.
Together
Soldiers can never stand idle long together.
Trash
A haunch of venison would be trash to a Brahmin.
Tutelar
This, of all advantages, is the greatest . . . the most tutelary of morals.
Undersong
In the very [poetry] there often an undersong of sense which none beside the poetic mind . . . can comprehend.
Upon
Philip swore upon the Evangelists to abstain from aggression in my absence.
Vestige
Ridicule has followed the vestiges of Truth, but never usurped her place.
Virgin
A few ounces of mutton, with a little virgin oil.
Watch
I must cool a little, and watch my opportunity.
Welter
The priests at the altar . . . weltering in their blood.
Wilding
The fruit of the tree . . . is small, of little juice, and bad quality. I presume it to be a wilding.
Wry
Not according to the wry rigor of our neighbors, who never take up an old idea without some extravagance in its application.