222 Quotes by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Hope is love’s happiness, but not its life.

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.

Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable...

Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings – they rarely come single.

I do love violets; they tell the history of woman’s love.

Music is the language of some other state, born of memory. For what can wake the soul’s strong instinct of some other world like music?

Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion...

I hate the word ‘ought’ – it always implies something dull, cold, and commonplace. The ‘ought nots’ of life are its pleasantest things.

There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness...