Walter Savage Landor Quotes

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

Turk: Anyone behaving as a barbarian or savage.

We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.

It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.

The word arse is as much god as the word face. It must be so, otherwise you cut off your god at the waist.

When language in common use in any country becomes irregular and depraved, it is followed by their ruin and degradation. For what do terms used without skill or meaning, which are at once corrupt and misapplied, denote but a people listless, supine, and ripe for servitude?

Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind, independent of the prevalent one among the crowds, and in opposition to it - a tone of mind which will gradually win influence over the collective one, and in the end determine its character. Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.

It is sort of interesting that in our society this days we are very quick to apply the term 'war' to places where thare are no actual wars, and loath to apply the term 'war' when we are actually fighting wars.

A stick or a stone only stings for a minute. A name seems to hurt forever.

We need to confront the crisis of Islamic extremism and the Islamists and Islamic terror of all kinds. We must stop what they're doing to inspire, because they do nothing to inspire but kill. Religious leaders must make this absolutely clear. Barbarism will deliver you no glory. Piety to evil will bring you no dignity. If you choose the path of terror, your life will be empty, your life will be brief, and your soul will be fully condemned. And political leaders must speak out to affirm the same idea. Heroes don't kill innocents. They save them.

There are a set of malicious, prating, prudent gossips, both male and female, who murder characters to kill time; and will rob a young fellow of his good name before he has years to know the value of it.

A pox o’ your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!

[Every age], however destitute of science or virtue, sufficiently abounds with acts of blood and military renown.

Don't you worry about that, Mr. Adamsson. Why don't you head back to Reykjavik and spend some of that extortionate fee you charged me for a couple of hours' usage of your frankly third-rate restaurant and perhaps find a friendless tree stump to listen to your woes?

Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture.

If I did not speak with people who call me names, I could not engage in politics.

Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.

No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.

Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.

Abuse directed at women is always sexual or violent.

I was beaten up wherever I went, and people shouted at me and cursed me and threw things at me.

Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat & stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame crimson, and I am content"......Conan the Cimmerian.

I accept that people are going to call me awful things every day, and I will always defend their right to do so.

People tend to call me names that I can't repeat on basic cable. I will give you a hint. They rhyme with itch, hunt, & bore.