222 Quotes by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage...

A woman’s fame is the tomb of her happiness.

The lover and the physician are each popular from the same cause – we talk to them of nothing but ourselves...

Politeness, however, acts the lady’s maid to our thoughts; and they are washed, dressed, curled, rouged, and perfumed, before they are presented to the public...

The heart’s hushed secret in the soft dark eye.

We are ourselves the stumbling-blocks in the way of our happiness. Place a common individual – by common, I mean with the common share of stupidity, custom, and discontent – place him in the garden of Eden, and he would not find it out unless he were told, and when told, he would not believe it.

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

All beginnings are very troublesome things...

In our road through life we may happen to meet with a man casting a stone reverentially to enlarge the cairn of another which stone he has carried in his bosom to sling against that very other’s head.