• Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one

    Walter Savage Landor: Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one
    Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.311