All Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes
- I do love violets; they tell the history of woman's love. Flower
- Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret? Better
- I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny. Astrology
- We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity. Learn
- Music is the language of some other state, born of memory. For what can wake the soul's strong instinct of some other world like music? Born
- No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable. Ever Yet
- All sweeping assertions are erroneous. All
- An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence. Apt
- Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life. Art
- I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time. Break
- We love music for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch. Buried
- Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last? Ah
- Hope is love's happiness, but not its life. Funny
- Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love. Ambition
- Childhood, whose very happiness is love. Childhood
- No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.[to feel unhappy you need the time to consider how your lot could be better] Better
- Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean. Attitude
- We are ourselves our happiness. Funny
- Whatever people in general do not understand, they are al ways prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious. Al
- I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But I hold it… Connected
- How beautiful, buoyant, and glad is morning! The first sunshine on the leaves: the first wind, laden with the first breath of the flowers—that deep… All
- Few save the poor feel for the poor. Feel
- There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own. Experience
- We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing. Been
- Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others. Despondent