Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes

Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee.

Oh, only those whose souls have felt this one idolatry can tell how precious is the slightest thing affection gives and hallows.

Eyes that droop like summer flowers.

So much to win, so much to lose, No marvel that I fear to choose.

But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.[to feel unhappy you need the time to consider how your lot could be better]

I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But I hold it is connected with some of the noblest feelings in our nature.

There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.

Alas! we makeA ladder of our thoughts, where angels step,But sleep ourselves at the foot: our high resolvesLook down upon our slumbering acts.

The stars are so far, far away!

I hate the word 'ought' - it always implies something dull, cold, and commonplace. The 'ought nots' of life are its pleasantest things.

There is no denying that there are 'royal roads' through existence for the upper classes; for them, at least, the highways are macadamized, swept, and watered.

English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.

Suicide and antipathy to fires in a bedroom seem to be among the national characteristics. Perhaps the same moral cause may originate both.

Anticipation is a bad sleeping draught.

no hour arrives so soon as the one we dread.

Fame is bought by happiness.

Farewell's a bitter word to say.

The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.

ingratitude is the necessary consequence of receiving favors of which we are ashamed.

Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.

doubts, like facts, are stubborn things.

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are al ways prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

anybody's applause is better than nobody's.

in came ... a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood.

A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical.

Business before pleasure.

It is strange what society will endure from its idols.

Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human.

Conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep.

Curiosity and courtesy are very often at variance.

Curiosity is its own suicide.

marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.

though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.

A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.