Affection Quote by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

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

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

Curiosity is its own suicide.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Curiosity and courtesy are very often at variance.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

— 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 has the…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Shopping, true feminine felicity!

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon