Letitia Elizabeth Landon

My heart is its own grave!

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Eyes that droop like summer flowers.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The fearless make their own way.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

We are rarely wrong when we act from impulse.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

A woman only can understand a woman.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Anticipation is a bad sleeping draught.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Assuredly, meeting after absence, is one of - ah, no! - it is life's most delicious feeling.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“Were it not better to forget Than but remember and regret”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

ingratitude is the necessary consequence of receiving favors of which we are ashamed.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Politeness, however, acts the lady's maid to our thoughts; and they are washed, dressed, curled, rouged, and perfumed, before they are presented…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

sight-seeing gratifies us in different ways. First, there is the pleasure of novelty; secondly, either that of admiration or fault-finding - the…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Perhaps, from an innate desire of justification, sorrow always exaggerates itself. Memory is quite one of Job's friends; and the past is…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Suicide and antipathy to fires in a bedroom seem to be among the national characteristics. Perhaps the same moral cause may originate…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I cannot love evergreens - they are the misanthropes of nature. To them the spring brings no promise, the autumn no decline;…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The wind has a language, I would I could learn! Sometimes 'tis soothing, and sometimes 'tis stern, Sometimes it comes like a…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

There is no existence so content as that whose present is engrossed by employment, and whose future is filled by some strong…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

And this is woman's fate: all her affections are called into life by winning flatteries, and then thrown back upon themselves to…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Toil is the portion of day, as sleep is that of night; but if there be one hour of the twenty-four which…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

From religion ... they will learn the only true lesson of equality - the conviction that our destinies are not in our…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Do anything but love; or if thou lovest and art a woman, hide thy love from him whom thou dost worship; never…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Every other species of talent carries with it its eternity; we enjoy the work of the poet, the painter, the sculptor, only…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

How beautiful, buoyant, and glad is morning! The first sunshine on the leaves: the first wind, laden with the first breath of…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

It is a curious fact, but a fact it is, that your witty people are the most hard-hearted in the world. The…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

We are ourselves our happiness.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Few save the poor feel for the poor.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

habit is our idea of eternity.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

To be rude is as good as being clever.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon