Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes About Duty

Quotes about: Duty

• charity is a calm, severe duty; it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered a merit; its fulfillment is only what we owe to each other, and is a debt never paid to its full extent.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Mistake, Compassion, Intellectual

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1857). “The Complete Works of L. E. Landon ...”

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

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Hate, Dull, Cold

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1837). “Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides ...”, p.88

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

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Politics, Hours, Advantage

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1837). “Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides ...”, p.247

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