222 Quotes by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Truly, a little love-making is a very pleasant thing...

Assuredly, meeting after absence, is one of – ah, no! – it is life’s most delicious feeling.

Strange the affection which clings to inanimate objects – objects which cannot even know our love! But it is not return that constitutes the strength of an attachment.

Of all false assertions that ever went into the world under the banner of a great name and the mail armor of a well-turned phrase, Locke’s comparison of the mind to a blank sheet of paper appears to me among the most untrue.

It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves...

Hard are life’s early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.

There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody’s experience ever suits us but our own.

Delicious tears! The heart’s own dew.

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.