Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes

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It is the strangest problem of humanity — one too, for which the closest investigation can never quite account — to trace the progress by which innocence becomes guilt, and how those who formerly trembled to think of crime, are led on to commit that at which they once shuddered.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I deeply swore
No lip should sigh where mine before
Had sealed its vow, no heart should rest
Upon the bosom mine had prest.
Life had no ill I would not brave
To claim him, even in the grave!

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Methinks we must have known some former state
More glorious than our present, and the heart
Is haunted with dim memories, shadows left
By past magnificence; and hence we pine
With vain aspirings, hopes that fill the eyes
With bitter tears for their own vanity.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
It is a fact not to be disputed, that the aristocracy have not "progressed " in proportion to the other classes. A young nobleman of the present day has not a better education than his ancestor in the time of Elizabeth.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
What a mistake rage is ! anger should never go beyond a sneer, if it really desires revenge.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Sketches indeed, from that most passionate page,
A woman's heart, of feelings, thoughts, that make
The atmosphere in which her spirit moves;

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
'Tis soothing, oh ! most soothing to the heart,
To rove 'mid scenes where once we have been blest!
Each tree, each blossom, has a thrilling charm;
They seem memorials of those happier hours :
The very sigh that tells they are no more,
Is sweet unto the spirit; former days,
And former feelings, rise upon the soul,
Dear as they once have been.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Hope, frail but lovely shadow ! thou dost come,
Like a bright vision on our pathway here,
Making the gloomy future beautiful,
And gilding our horizon with a light,
The fairest human eye can ever know.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Whenever I hear a man talking of the advantages of our ill-used sex, I look upon it as the prelude to some new act of authority.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
It is a cruel proof of the want of generosity in human nature, that an affection too utterly self-sacrificing always meets with an evil return.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
His mind divided! Verily, that is making two bites of a cherry.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Oh, there are evil moments in our life,
When but a thought, a word, a look, has power
To dash the cup of happiness aside,
And stamp us wretched!

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
For love is like the breathing wind,
That everywhere may entrance find.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
…that worst bump developed that can adorn the head of a bore—viz., long-story-tellativeness.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
… ; but conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep ; and habit is our idea of eternity.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Free, thou sayest,—dream'st thou how?
Loathing wouldst thou shun dismay'd
Freedom by such ransom paid.
—Girl, for thee I'll lay aside
Veil of smiles and mask of pride;
Shrowds that only ask of Fate
Not to seem so desolate.
—I am young,—but Age's snow
Hides not colder depths below... 


Letitia Elizabeth Landon
And all o'er heaven is that clear blue
The stars so love to wander through.
They're rising from the silent deep,
Like bright eyes opening after sleep.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The lines were fill'd with many a tender thing,
All the impassion'd heart's fond communing.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Nothing but love can answer to love; no affection, no kindness, no care, can supply its place: it is its own sweet want.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Byron idealised and expressed that bitter spirit of discontent which has at the present moment taken a more material and tangible form. He is the incarnation of November. From time immemorial it has been an Englishman's privilege to grumble, and Byron gave picturesque language to the universal feeling.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Not that hunger does a cook justice. 'I do not like people that are hungry,' says Ude; 'hungry people eat any thing: I would have my dishes create, of themselves, an appetite; I do not wish them to be wanted till they are tasted, and then to eat is a compliment.'

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
She held the cup ; and he the while
Sat gazing on her playful smile,
As all the wine he wished to sip
Was one kiss from her rosebud lip.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Charles coloured, from a complication of disorders. First he was quite shy enough to be annoyed at its being supposed that he cared whether there were any young ladies in the world or not; and, secondly, he was quite romantic enough to be shocked at the idea of money supplying the want of a pretty face.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
She said Oh rather thank thy God,
My lot is not thine own.
How would my weary feet rejoice
Like thine to walk and run
Over the soft and fragrant grass,
Beneath yon cheerful sun.
And yet I trust to God's good will
My spirit is resign'd ;
Though sore my sickness, it is borne
At least with patient mind.
Though noble be my father's name,
And vast my father's wealth;
He would give all, could he but give
His only child thy health !
Ah, judge not by the outside show
Of this world, vain and frail —

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
A will of his own in a young man without a shilling is a superfluity,

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Those sweet, vague sounds are on the air,
Half sleep, half song—half false, half true,
As if the wind that brought them there
Had touched them with its music too.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
November's night is dark and drear,
The dullest month of all the year.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Alas! vows are his after sign!—
We prop the tree in its decline—
The ghosts that haunt a parting hour,
With all of grief, and nought of power;
A chain half sunder'd in the making,—
The plighted vow's already breaking.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
My heart is like the failing hearth
Now by my side,
One by one its bursts of flame
Have burnt and died.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon