What did Walter Savage Landor mean by: And Modesty, who, when she goes,Is gone for ever. - Walter Savage Landor Poet · England Copy
+ We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Walter Savage Landor, Happiness, Inner Peace, 0 - Walter Savage Landor Poet · England
+ Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Walter Savage Landor, Greatness, Ordinary, 0 - Walter Savage Landor Poet · England
+ Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Walter Savage Landor, History, Treats, 0 - Walter Savage Landor Poet · England
+ Other offences, even the greatest, are the violation of one law: despotism is the violation of all. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Walter Savage Landor, Despotism, Law, 0 - Walter Savage Landor Poet · England
+ He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Walter Savage Landor, Blades, Hands, 0 - Walter Savage Landor Poet · England
+ The highest price we can pay for anything; is to ask it. Feraz Zeid, August 10, 2023December 12, 2023, Walter Savage Landor, Money, Pay, Wealth, 0 - Walter Savage Landor Poet · England
+ We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. Feraz Zeid, June 29, 2023December 12, 2023, Walter Savage Landor, Happiness, Wish, 0 - Walter Savage Landor Poet · England
+ Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant or upon one of ordinary size. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Walter Savage Landor, Body, Giants, Ordinary, 0 - Walter Savage Landor Poet · England
Conjuring is a profession in which no one errs through excess of modesty. - Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin Magician · France
We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds. - Jean Rostand Biologist · France
Ha! for a divine and lordly manor, there is nothing like solid ground. - François Rabelais Author · France
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. Explain - Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher · Germany
When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame. Explain - Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher · Germany
Generally speaking, the greater a woman’s beauty, the greater her modesty. Explain - Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher · Germany
Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth. - Mary Wollstonecraft Writer and philosopher · England
The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. - Max Beerbohm Satirist and caricaturist · England
