Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Age: 36 †
Born: 1802
Born: August 14
Died: 1838
Died: October 15
Editor
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Chelsea
London
Letitia Landon
L. E. L.
Letitia Maclean
Letitia Elizabeth Maclean
Flattery
Alas
Sincere
Ears
Praise
Given
More quotes by Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I hate the word 'ought' - it always implies something dull, cold, and commonplace. The 'ought nots' of life are its pleasantest things.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
There is no denying that there are 'royal roads' through existence for the upper classes for them, at least, the highways are macadamized, swept, and watered.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I can pass days Stretch'd in the shade of those old cedar trees, Watching the sunshine like a blessing fall,-- The breeze like music wandering o'er the boughs, Each tree a natural harp,--each different leaf A different note, blent in one vast thanksgiving.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I do love violets they tell the history of woman's love.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Perhaps, from an innate desire of justification, sorrow always exaggerates itself. Memory is quite one of Job's friends and the past is ever ready to throw its added darkness on the present.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Eyes that droop like summer flowers.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The stars are so far, far away!
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness?
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain and pleasure by the wavering breath of passions.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Whatever people in general do not understand, they are al ways prepared to dislike the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
