222 Quotes by 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.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

It is said that ridicule is the test of truth; but it is never applied except when we wish to deceive ourselves - when if we cannot exclude the light, we would fain draw the curtain before it. The sneer springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be, that wishes to take refuge in doubt.

We are rarely wrong when we act from impulse.

We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.

To be rude is as good as being clever.

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.