222 Quotes by 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.

to enjoy yourself is the easy method to give enjoyment to others ...

I cannot love evergreens - they are the misanthropes of nature. To them the spring brings no promise, the autumn no decline; they are cut off from the sweetest of all ties with their kind - sympathy. ... I will have no evergreens in my garden; when the inevitable winter comes, every beloved plant and favorite tree shall drop together - no solitary fir left to triumph over the companionship of decay.

... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.

Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!

A woman only can understand a woman...

Curiosity is its own suicide...

Business before pleasure...

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.