Letitia Elizabeth Landon

All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Curiosity is its own suicide.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

anybody's applause is better than nobody's.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Fame is bought by happiness.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Farewell's a bitter word to say.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

A woman's fame is the tomb of her happiness.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

So much to win, so much to lose, No marvel that I fear to choose.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.[to feel unhappy you need the time to consider how your lot could be…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Music is the language of some other state, born of memory. For what can wake the soul's strong instinct of some other…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when occupied with…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

he who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

How often, in this cold and bitter world, is the warm heart thrown back upon itself! Cold, careless, are we of another's…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

there can be neither politically nor morally a good which is not universal ... we cannot reform for a time or for…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Nothing more strongly marks the insufficiency of luxuries than the ease with which people grow accustomed to them; they are rather known…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

One would think that an unsuccessful volume was like a degree in the school of reviewing. One unread work makes the judge…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

A blossom full of promise is life's joy, That never comes to fruit. Hope, for a time, Suns the young floweret in…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Ignorance, far more than idleness, is the mother of all the vices; and how recent has been the admission, that knowledge should…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I cannot see why a taste for the country should be held so very indispensable a requisite for excellence; but really people…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

There is the cause for pleasure and for pain: But music moves us, and we know not why? We feel the tears,…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

words alike make the destiny of empires and of individuals. Ambition, love, hate, interest, vanity, have words for their engines, and need…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Curiosity and courtesy are very often at variance.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Affection exaggerates its own offenses.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The stars are so far, far away!

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Shopping, true feminine felicity!

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Youth is a season that has no repose.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon