Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes - Page 7

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• The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Effort, Remember, Forget

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1837). “Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides ...”, p.81

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• Anticipation is a bad sleeping draught.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Sleep, Expectations, Anticipation

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.149

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• Farewell's a bitter word to say.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Farewell, Bitter Words, Bitter

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1841). “Life and literary remains of L.E.L. [ed.] by L. Blanchard”

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• My heart is its own grave!

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Heart, My Heart, Graves

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1860). “The Complete Works of L.E. Landon”

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• no hour arrives so soon as the one we dread.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Fear, Expectations, Hours

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.162

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• Fame is bought by happiness.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Fame

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1837). “Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides”, p.58

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• Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness?

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Long, Actors, Faces

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• 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.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Family, Pride, Feelings

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1837). “Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides”, p.96

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• I cannot see why a taste for the country should be held so very indispensable a requisite for excellence; but really people talk of it as if it were a virtue, and as if an opposite opinion was, to say the least of it, very immoral.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Country, Opposites, People

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1860). “The Complete Works of L.E. Landon”, p.100

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

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Thinking, Speech, Should

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.211

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

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Gratitude, Men, Unhappy

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• Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Attitude, Mean, Enthusiasm For Life

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1837). “Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides”, p.240

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• In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Wish, Half, Neighbor

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon, F. J. Sypher (1999). “Tales and sketches”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  People, Political, Als

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.245

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

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Tests, Taste, Morality

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.123

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