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
general people whatever
Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.
thinking people desire
it is a curious fact, but one which all experience owns, that people do not desire so much to appear better, as to appear different from what they really are.
fire people england
English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.
kindness people eating
It is curious how inseparable eating and kindness are with some people.
people als way
Whatever people in general do not understand, they are al ways prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.
class luxury people
Nothing more strongly marks the insufficiency of luxuries than the ease with which people grow accustomed to them; they are rather known by their want than by their presence. The word 'blasé' has been coined expressly for the use of the upper classes.
country opposites people
I cannot see why a taste for the country should be held so very indispensable a requisite for excellence; but really people talk of it as if it were a virtue, and as if an opposite opinion was, to say the least of it, very immoral.
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.
confidence security
Confidence is its own security.
fame tombs
A woman's fame is the tomb of her happiness.
elevates future human life looks low nature occupied
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
buds fragrant harvest honey whose yield
A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.
memories mind doe
When does the mind put forth its powers? when are the stores of memory unlocked? when does wit 'flash from fluent lips?' -- when but after a good dinner? Who will deny its influence on the affections? Half our friends are born of turbots and truffles.
mistake compassion intellectual
charity is a calm, severe duty; it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered a merit; its fulfillment is only what we owe to each other, and is a debt never paid to its full extent.