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 Copy Share Image
English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
to the many, witticisms not only require to be explained, like riddles, but are also like new shoes, which people require to… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
it is a curious fact, but one which all experience owns, that people do not desire so much to appear better, as… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is curious how inseparable eating and kindness are with some people. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Whatever people in general do not understand, they are al ways prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Alas! we makeA ladder of our thoughts, where angels step,But sleep ourselves at the foot: our high resolvesLook down upon our slumbering acts. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
the fact is, that life is too short to be occupied by aught but the present - hope and remembrance are equally a waste… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
There is no existence so content as that whose present is engrossed by employment, and whose future is filled by some strong hope, the… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Toil is the portion of day, as sleep is that of night; but if there be one hour of the twenty-four which has the… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
