Walter Savage Landor Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: January 30, 1775 - September 17, 1864
Birthday: January 30
Death: September 17
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind; none of them surely for our admiration.
topic: Hero, Ambition, Pestilence, Stilts, Chastisement
