Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes About Affection

Quotes about: Affection

• When does the mind put forth its powers? when are the stores of memory unlocked? when does wit 'flash from fluent lips?' -- when but after a good dinner? Who will deny its influence on the affections? Half our friends are born of turbots and truffles.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Memories, Mind, Doe

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.175

• Nothing but love can answer to love; no affection, no kindness, no care, can supply its place: it is its own sweet want.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Sweet, Kindness, Answers

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1837). “Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides ...”, p.288

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

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Giving, Soul, Affection

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1841). “The Poetical Works of Miss Landon: Complete”, p.37

• I would give worlds, could I believe
  One-half that is profess'd me;
  Affection! could I think it Thee,
  When Flattery has caress'd me.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Believe, Thinking, Giving

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1829). “The Venetian bracelet: the lost pleiad ; a history of the lyre, and other poems”, p.286

• And this is woman's fate: all her affections are called into life by winning flatteries, and then thrown back upon themselves to perish; and her heart, her trusting heart, filled with weak tenderness, is left to bleed or break!

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Heart, Fate, Winning

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1835). “The Miscellaneous Poetical Works”, p.173

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

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Affection, Habit

  "Ethel Churchill". Book by Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Chapter 25, 1837.

• Affection exaggerates its own offenses.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Affection, Offense

• Strange the affection which clings to inanimate objects - objects which cannot even know our love! But it is not return that constitutes the strength of an attachment.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Attachment, Inanimate Objects, Our Love

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.147

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin