Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes

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Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Profession : Poet

Birth : August 14, 1802

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

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

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

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon