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Quotes by Letitia Landon

A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.
– Letitia Landon
Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?
– Letitia Landon
All sweeping assertions are erroneous.
– Letitia Landon
An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
– Letitia Landon
Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.
– Letitia Landon
Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.
– Letitia Landon
Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.
– Letitia Landon
How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
– Letitia Landon
I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.
– Letitia Landon
No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
– Letitia Landon
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art o social life.
– Letitia Landon
The apple blossoms' shower of pearl, though blent with rosier hue, as beautiful as woman's blush, as evanescent too.
– Letitia Landon
There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.
– Letitia Landon
We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.
– Letitia Landon
We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.
– Letitia Landon
Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?
– Letitia Landon
Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.
– Letitia Landon