Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
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
Cold
Ought
Word
Pleasantest
Hate
Nots
Something
Implies
Always
Commonplace
Things
Dull
Life
Duty
More quotes by Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Affection exaggerates its own offenses.
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
Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Our first love-letter ... There is so much to be said, and which no words seems exactly to say - the dread of saying too much is so nicely balanced by the fear of saying too little. Hope borders on presumption, and fear on reproach.
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
Hope is love's happiness, but not its life.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Childhood, whose very happiness is love.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
sight-seeing gratifies us in different ways. First, there is the pleasure of novelty secondly, either that of admiration or fault-finding - the latter a very animated enjoyment.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Oh, no! my heart can never be Again in lightest hopes the same The love that lingers there for thee Hath more of ashes than of flame.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
It is strange what society will endure from its idols.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true without it, we are little, false, and mean.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
It is amazing how much a thought expands and refines by being put into speech: I should think it could hardly know itself.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Sneering springs out of the wish to deny and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in doubt.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
