Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes

who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears?

Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.

A sealed book, at whose contents we tremble.

Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.

Few save the poor feel for the poor.

Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion.

We are ourselves our happiness.

Good taste is his religion, his morality, his standard, and his test.

The fearless make their own way.

Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.

It is curious how inseparable eating and kindness are with some people.

It merely shews, after all, that affection is a habit.

habit is our idea of eternity.

The truth is, we never make for others the allowance we make for ourselves; and we should deny even our own words, could we hear them spoken by another.

Truly, a little love-making is a very pleasant thing.

Politeness, however, acts the lady's maid to our thoughts; and they are washed, dressed, curled, rouged, and perfumed, before they are presented to the public.

The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.

Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.

I never cast a flower away, A gift of one who car'd for me; A flower--a faded flower, But it was done reluctantly.

Affection exaggerates its own offenses.

Oh, no! my heart can never be Again in lightest hopes the same; The love that lingers there for thee Hath more of ashes than of flame.

Assuredly, meeting after absence, is one of - ah, no! - it is life's most delicious feeling.

it is a curious fact, but one which all experience owns, that people do not desire so much to appear better, as to appear different from what they really are.

Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.

... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.

the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.

In marriage, as in chemistry, opposites have often an attraction.

A friend is never alarmed for us in the right place.

We are rarely wrong when we act from impulse.

Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous.

If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in youth, it is the habit of ridicule.

I have no parting sigh to give, so take my parting smile.

I do not think that life has a suspense more sickening than that of expecting a letter which does not come.

Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.

To be rude is as good as being clever.

It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves.

To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage.

The lover and the physician are each popular from the same cause - we talk to them of nothing but ourselves.

It is amazing how much a thought expands and refines by being put into speech: I should think it could hardly know itself.

Shopping, true feminine felicity!

Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others.

How very satisfactory those discussions must be, where each party retains their own opinion!

The past is perpetual youth to the heart.

Youth is a season that has no repose.

A woman only can understand a woman.

to the many, witticisms not only require to be explained, like riddles, but are also like new shoes, which people require to wear many times before they get accustomed to them.

The truth is, we like to talk over our disasters, because they are ours; and others like to listen, because they are not theirs.

of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.

There is no wretchedness like self-reproach.

I do love violets; they tell the history of woman's love.