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
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.
believe thinking giving
I would give worlds, could I believe One-half that is profess'd me; Affection! could I think it Thee, When Flattery has caress'd me.
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.
believe school thinking
One would think that an unsuccessful volume was like a degree in the school of reviewing. One unread work makes the judge bitter enough; but a second failure, and he is quite desperate in his damnation. I do believe one half of the injustice - the severity of 'the ungentle craft' originates in its own want of success: they cannot forgive the popularity which has passed them over ...
thinking letters doe
I do not think that life has a suspense more sickening than that of expecting a letter which does not come.
heart thinking glasses
I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.
confidence security
Confidence is its own security.
fame tombs
A woman's fame is the tomb of her happiness.
general people whatever
Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.
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.
knowledge dust sticks
Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.