6 Quotes by Letitia Landon

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

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

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

Love is a pearl of purest hue, / But stormy waves are round it; / And dearly may a woman rue, / The hour that she found it.

As beautiful as woman's blush, - / As evanescent too.

Ah tell me not that memory / Sheds gladness o'er the past; / What is recalled by faded flowers / Save that they did not last?