Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes - Page 6

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• Shopping, true feminine felicity!

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Shopping, Feminine, Felicity

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.16

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• ... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Love Is, Silence, Sanctity

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1833). “The Book of Beauty: Comprising a Collection of Tales, Poems, &c”, p.88

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• The wind has a language, I would I could learn!
  Sometimes 'tis soothing, and sometimes 'tis stern,
  Sometimes it comes like a low sweet song,
  And all things grow calm, as the sound floats along,
  And the forest is lull'd by the dreamy strain,
  And slumber sinks down on the wandering main,
  And its crystal arms are folded in rest,
  And the tall ship sleeps on its heaving breast.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Song, Sweet, Sleep

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• Curiosity is its own suicide.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Suicide, Curiosity

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.179

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• To be rude is as good as being clever.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Clever, Rude

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.122

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• There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Misery, Paint

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1834). “Francesca Carrara”, p.18

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• ... many a heart is caught in the rebound ... Pride may be soothed by the ready devotion of another; vanity may be excited the more keenly by recent mortification.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Heart, Pride, Vanity

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1834). “Francesca Carrara”, p.51

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• How very satisfactory those discussions must be, where each party retains their own opinion!

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Party, Opinion, Discussion

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.165

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• 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.

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• habit is our idea of eternity.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Ideas, Eternity, Habit

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1833). “The Book of Beauty: Comprising a Collection of Tales, Poems, &c”, p.198

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• A sealed book, at whose contents we tremble.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Book

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

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• Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Memories, Flower, Past

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

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• Hope is love's happiness, but not its life.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Hopeful

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1850). “The Poetical Works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon”, p.194

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• Few save the poor feel for the poor.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Poverty, Poor, Feels

  'The Poor'

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

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Ignorance, Way, Young

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (2003). “Poems from the Literary Gazette”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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• Alas! the praise given to the ear
  Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Ears, Flattery, Praise

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• 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

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• I never cast a flower away,
  A gift of one who car'd for me;
  A flower--a faded flower,
  But it was done reluctantly.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Flower, Car, Done

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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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• One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Sympathy, Pleasure, Our Thoughts

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• Affection exaggerates its own offenses.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Affection, Offense

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• anybody's applause is better than nobody's.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Applause

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1857). “The Complete Works of L. E. Landon ...”, p.283

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

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Baby, Infancy, Heard

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and reality, by L.E.L.”, p.129

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• Business before pleasure.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Business, Pleasure

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1834). “Francesca Carrara”, p.200

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• Of all false assertions that ever went into the world under the banner of a great name and the mail armor of a well-turned phrase, Locke's comparison of the mind to a blank sheet of paper appears to me among the most untrue.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Names, Mind, Armor

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and reality, by L.E.L.”, p.241

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