Quotes from Letitia Elizabeth Landon

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

It is a beautiful, a bless'd belief, That the beloved dead, grown angels, watch The dear ones left behind...

I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny.

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

'Tis a strange mystery, the power of words! Life is in them, and death. A word can send The crimson colour hurrying to the cheek. Hurrying with many meanings; or can turn The current cold and deadly to the heart. Anger and fear are in them; grief and joy Are on their sound; yet slight, impalpable:-- A word is but a breath of passing air.

A man above thirty cannot enter into the wild visions of an enthusiastic girl.

Alas ! the contrast between us, and what We can create; That man should be so little in himself, His works so great.

Best intentions are not the best things in the world to marry upon.

Each was changed in himself, and yet each thought the other only changed, himself the same.

Every age has its characteristic, and our present one is not behind its predecessors in that respect ; it is the age of systems, every system enforced by a treatise.

Grief, after all, is like smoking in a damp country — what was at first a necessity becomes afterwards an indulgence.

Hope and experience take two different sides of an argument.

I am a woman : — tell me not of fame !

Life has one vast stern likeness in its gloom

Love has no power to look forward — the delicious consciousness of the present, a faint but delightful shadow of the past, form its eternity.

Modern history might be told by a succession of dinners.

Nothing circulates so rapidly as a secret.

Nothing is too unreasonable nor too unkind for selfishness, acted upon by vanity.

Nothing more indicates those tastes and habits which go so far towards both making and showing the character — as a person's sitting-room.

Once set a strong mind thinking, and you have done all that it needs for its education.

Our own faults are those we are the first to detect, and the last to forgive, in others.

Shopping, true feminine felicity !

Silence is love's own peculiar eloquence of bliss.