Best 139 quotes of Letitia Elizabeth Landon on MyQuotes

A blossom full of promise is life's joy, That never comes to fruit. Hope, for a time, Suns the young floweret in its gladsome light, And it looks flourishing--a little while-- 'T is pass'd, we know not whither, but 't is gone.

Affection exaggerates its own offenses.

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, tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past; What is recalled by faded flowers, Save that they did not last? Were it not better to forget, Than but remember and regret?

Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.

Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others.

Alas! we makeA ladder of our thoughts, where angels step,But sleep ourselves at the foot: our high resolvesLook down upon our slumbering acts.

All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

And this is woman's fate: all her affections are called into life by winning flatteries, and then thrown back upon themselves to perish; and her heart, her trusting heart, filled with weak tenderness, is left to bleed or break!

Anticipation is a bad sleeping draught.

A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical.

Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness?

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

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

charity is a calm, severe duty; it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered a merit; its fulfillment is only what we owe to each other, and is a debt never paid to its full extent.

Childhood, whose very happiness is love.

Confidence is its own security.

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

Curiosity and courtesy are very often at variance.

Curiosity is its own suicide.

Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.

Do anything but love; or if thou lovest and art a woman, hide thy love from him whom thou dost worship; never let him know how dear he is; flit like a bird before him; lead him from tree to tree, from flower to flower; but be not won, or thou wilt, like that bird, when caught and caged, be left to pine neglected and perish in forgetfulness.

doubts, like facts, are stubborn things.

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

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

Eyes that droop like summer flowers.

Farewell's a bitter word to say.

Few save the poor feel for the poor.

From religion ... they will learn the only true lesson of equality - the conviction that our destinies are not in our own hands; they will see that no situation in life is without its share of suffering; - and this perpetual reference to a higher power ought equally to teach the rich humility, and the poor devotion.

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

habit is our idea of eternity.

Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.

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

Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.

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 sigh with which they seem to waken from sleep; the first dew, untouched even by the light foot of the early hare; the first chirping of the rousing birds, as if eager to begin song and flight; all is redolent of the strength given by rest, and the joy of conscious life.

How beautiful, how buoyant, and glad is morning!

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

How often, in this cold and bitter world, is the warm heart thrown back upon itself! Cold, careless, are we of another's grief; we wrap ourselves in sullen selfishness.

How very satisfactory those discussions must be, where each party retains their own opinion!

I cannot love evergreens - they are the misanthropes of nature. To them the spring brings no promise, the autumn no decline; they are cut off from the sweetest of all ties with their kind - sympathy. ... I will have no evergreens in my garden; when the inevitable winter comes, every beloved plant and favorite tree shall drop together - no solitary fir left to triumph over the companionship of decay.

I cannot see why a taste for the country should be held so very indispensable a requisite for excellence; but really people talk of it as if it were a virtue, and as if an opposite opinion was, to say the least of it, very immoral.

I can pass days Stretch'd in the shade of those old cedar trees, Watching the sunshine like a blessing fall,-- The breeze like music wandering o'er the boughs, Each tree a natural harp,--each different leaf A different note, blent in one vast thanksgiving.

I do love violets; they tell the history of woman's love.

I do not think that life has a suspense more sickening than that of expecting a letter which does not come.

If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in youth, it is the habit of ridicule.

Ignorance, far more than idleness, is the mother of all the vices; and how recent has been the admission, that knowledge should be the portion of all? The destinies of the future lie in judicious education; an education that must be universal, to be beneficial.

I hate the word 'ought' - it always implies something dull, cold, and commonplace. The 'ought nots' of life are its pleasantest things.

I have no parting sigh to give, so take my parting smile.

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