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
giving sigh parting
I have no parting sigh to give, so take my parting smile.
dry youth habit
If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in youth, it is the habit of ridicule.
spring light doubt
It is said that ridicule is the test of truth; but it is never applied except when we wish to deceive ourselves - when if we cannot exclude the light, we would fain draw the curtain before it. The sneer springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be, that wishes to take refuge in doubt.
impulse
We are rarely wrong when we act from impulse.
clever rude
To be rude is as good as being clever.
affection habit
affection is a habit.
summer disappointment expectations
youth, balancing itself upon hope, is forever in extremes: its expectations are continually aroused only to be baffled, and disappointment, like a summer shower, is violent in proportion to its brevity.
trouble truth-is disaster
The truth is, we like to talk over our disasters, because they are ours; and others like to listen, because they are not theirs.
truth profound firsts
All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.
twilight sleep night
Toil is the portion of day, as sleep is that of night; but if there be one hour of the twenty-four which has the life of day without its labor, and the rest of night without its slumber, it is the lovely and languid hour of twilight.
new-shoes people wit
to the many, witticisms not only require to be explained, like riddles, but are also like new shoes, which people require to wear many times before they get accustomed to them.
powerful hate ambition
words alike make the destiny of empires and of individuals. Ambition, love, hate, interest, vanity, have words for their engines, and need none more powerful. Language is a fifth element - the one by which all the others are swayed.
A woman only can understand a woman ...
youth seasons repose
Youth is a season that has no repose.