222 Quotes by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

in came ... a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood.

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

Affection exaggerates its own offenses ...

The truth is, we never make for others the allowance we make for ourselves; and we should deny even our own words, could we hear them spoken by another.

he who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent.

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

Anticipation is a bad sleeping draught.

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

The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.