Letitia Landon Quotes

"We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing."
- Letitia Landon
(Related: Life, Words)

"A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee."
- Letitia Landon
(Related: Harvest, Yield)

"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 Landon
(Related: Flowers, Memory, Past)

"An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence."
- Letitia Landon
(Related: Light, Quotation)

"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 Landon
(Related: Enthusiasm)

"Few, save the poor, feel for the poor."
- Letitia Landon
(Related: Poor)

"How disappointment tracks the steps of hope."
- Letitia Landon
(Related: Hope, Disappointment)

"I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time."
- Letitia Landon
(Related: Time, First)

"No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable."
- Letitia Landon
(Related: Man)

"Delicious tears! The heart's own dew."
- Letitia Landon
(Related: Heart, Dew)

"There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own."
- Letitia Landon
(Related: Experience)

"Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious."
- Letitia Landon
(Related: People)

"We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity."
- Letitia Landon
(Related: May, Pity)

"Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?"
- Letitia Landon
(Related: Forget, Regret)

"Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art o social life."
- Letitia Landon
(Related: Art, Life, Society, Water)