Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes - Page 3

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

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Talking, Tears, Relief

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1833). “The Book of Beauty: Comprising a Collection of Tales, Poems, &c”, p.82

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• How beautiful, how buoyant, and glad is morning!

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Beautiful, Morning, Glad

  "Heath's book of Beauty, 1833". Book by Letitia Elizabeth Landon, 1832.

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• 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.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  New Shoes, People, Wit

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1860). “The Complete Works of L.E. Landon”, p.366

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

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Kindness, People, Eating

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.2

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

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Surprise, Herring, Misfortunes

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.296

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

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Philosophy, Blessing, Reality

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.75

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• Do anything but love; or if thou lovest and art a woman, hide thy love from him whom thou dost worship; never let him know how dear he is; flit like a bird before him; lead him from tree to tree, from flower to flower; but be not won, or thou wilt, like that bird, when caught and caged, be left to pine neglected and perish in forgetfulness.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Love, Art, Flower

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• Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Kindness, Sometimes, Praise

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• Whenever I hear a man talking of the advantages of our ill-used sex, I look upon it as the prelude to some new act of authority.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Sex, Men, Talking

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and reality, by L.E.L.”, p.95

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• How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Disappointment, Track, Steps

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1850). “The Poetical Works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon”, p.56

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• In our road through life we may happen to meet with a man casting a stone reverentially to enlarge the cairn of another which stone he has carried in his bosom to sling against that very other's head.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Men, Envy, May

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• 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.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Heart, Flames, Ashes

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• 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.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Class, Royal, Wealth

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1844). “The Works of L.E. Landon in Two Volumes”

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• Childhood, whose very happiness is love.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Children, Childhood, Children Love

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1850). “The Poetical Works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon”, p.33

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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Dry, Youth, Habit

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• It is said that ridicule is the test of truth; but it is never applied except when we wish to deceive ourselves - when if we cannot exclude the light, we would fain draw the curtain before it. The sneer springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be, that wishes to take refuge in doubt.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Spring, Light, Doubt

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• The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Heart, Eye, Dark

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• Ignorance, far more than idleness, is the mother of all the vices; and how recent has been the admission, that knowledge should be the portion of all? The destinies of the future lie in judicious education; an education that must be universal, to be beneficial.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Education, Mother, Lying

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1837). “Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides ...”, p.248

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

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Physicians, Causes, Lovers

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1837). “Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides ...”, p.200

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• Nothing more strongly marks the insufficiency of luxuries than the ease with which people grow accustomed to them; they are rather known by their want than by their presence. The word 'blasé' has been coined expressly for the use of the upper classes.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Class, Luxury, People

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1841). “The Works of L. E. Landon: In Two Volumes”, p.118

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• It is strange what society will endure from its idols.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Idols, Strange, Fame

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1837). “Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides ...”, p.5

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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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• 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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