Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Letitia Elizabeth Landon, English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L.E.L...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth14 August 1802
diversity opinion mankind
Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion ...
self reproach wretchedness
There is no wretchedness like self-reproach.
party opinion discussion
How very satisfactory those discussions must be, where each party retains their own opinion!
littles love-making little-love
Truly, a little love-making is a very pleasant thing ...
sex men talking
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.
golden moderation enjoyment
Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.
thinking speech should
It is amazing how much a thought expands and refines by being put into speech: I should think it could hardly know itself.
giving easy pleasure
to enjoy yourself is the easy method to give enjoyment to others ...
spring autumn cutting
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.
love-is silence sanctity
... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.
imagination genius opinion
Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!
heart pride vanity
... many a heart is caught in the rebound ... Pride may be soothed by the ready devotion of another; vanity may be excited the more keenly by recent mortification.
right-place
A friend is never alarmed for us in the right place.
men occupation miserable
Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable ...