Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes

• No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Felicidad, Risa, Hombres

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.108

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• Experience teaches, it is true; but she never teaches in time.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Experience, Teach

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.203

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• I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Vida, Corazón, Pensamiento

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.92

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• ¡Qué hermosa, boyante y alegre es la mañana! Los primeros rayos de sol sobre las hojas; el primer viento, cargado con el primer aliento de las flores, ese suspiro profundo con el que parecen despertar del sueño; el primer rocío, intacto incluso por el pie ligero de la liebre temprana; el primer gorjeo de los pájaros, como si estuvieran ansiosos por empezar a cantar y volar; todo es aroma de la fuerza que da el descanso y la alegría de la vida consciente.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Bella, Canción, Mañana

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1833). “The Book of Beauty: Comprising a Collection of Tales, Poems, &c”, p.170

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

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Littles, Love Making, Little Love

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.79

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• Una cita acertada es como una lámpara que proyecta su luz sobre toda la frase.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Light, Lamps, Fling

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.70

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• Toil is the portion of day, as sleep is that of night; but if there be one hour of the twenty-four which has the life of day without its labor, and the rest of night without its slumber, it is the lovely and languid hour of twilight.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Twilight, Sleep, Night

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1857). “The Complete Works of L. E. Landon ...”, p.205

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• ¡Extraño misterio de nuestra naturaleza, que aquellos en quienes el genio se desarrolla en la imaginación, tomando así su forma más etérea, sean sin embargo los más dependientes de las opiniones de los demás!

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Imaginación, Genio, Opinión

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• Nothing but love can answer to love; no affection, no kindness, no care, can supply its place: it is its own sweet want.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Sweet, Kindness, Answers

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1837). “Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides ...”, p.288

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• Confidence is its own security.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Confidence, Security

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.259

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• There is the cause for pleasure and for pain:
  But music moves us, and we know not why?
  We feel the tears, but cannot trace their source.
  Is it the language of some other state, Born of its memory!
  For what can wake The soul's strong instinct of another world,
  Like music！

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Strong, Memories, Inspiration

  "The Poetical Works of Miss Landon".

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

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Diversity, Opinion, Mankind

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.313

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• Politeness, however, acts the lady's maid to our thoughts; and they are washed, dressed, curled, rouged, and perfumed, before they are presented to the public.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Maids, Manners, Politeness

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.266

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• Todas las verdades profundas te sobresaltan en el primer anuncio.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Truth, Profound, Firsts

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1854). “The Complete Works of L. E. Landon: Containing Romance and Reality, Francesca Carrara, Traits and Trials of Early Life, Ethel Church, the Book of Beauty, Improvisatrice, the Troubadour, Venetian Bracelet, Golden Violet, Vow of the Peacock, Easter Gift, &c., &c”, p.282

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• Ah, tell me not that memory
  Sheds gladness o'er the past;
  What is recalled by faded flowers,
  Save that they did not last?
  Were it not better to forget,
  Than but remember and regret?

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Regret, Remember, Forget

  "Ethel Churchill, Or, The Two Brides".

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• Podríamos haber sido - estas no son más que palabras comunes, y sin embargo hacen la suma de los lamentos de la vida.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Might, Common, Might Have Been

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1841). “Life and literary remains of L.E.L. [ed.] by L. Blanchard”

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• Disfrutar de uno mismo es el método más fácil para dar placer a los demás.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Dar, Fácil, Placer

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1833). "El Libro de la Belleza: Comprising a Collection of Tales, Poems, &c", p.85

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• What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain and pleasure by the wavering breath of passions.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Life, Pain, Passion

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1841). “Life and literary remains of L.E.L. [ed.] by L. Blanchard”

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• All beginnings are very troublesome things.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Problemático

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1836). “Traits and Trials of Early Life”, p.135

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• Los intrépidos hacen su propio camino.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Courage, Fearless, Way

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1833). “The Book of Beauty: Comprising a Collection of Tales, Poems, &c”, p.129

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• We are ourselves the stumbling-blocks in the way of our happiness. Place a common individual - by common, I mean with the common share of stupidity, custom, and discontent - place him in the garden of Eden, and he would not find it out unless he were told, and when told, he would not believe it.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Block, Believe, Mean

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and reality, by L.E.L.”, p.176

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• There is no existence so content as that whose present is engrossed by employment, and whose future is filled by some strong hope, the truth of which is never proved. Toil and illusion are the only secrets to make life tolerable.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Strong, Work, Secret

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1834). “Francesca Carrara”, p.8

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• the fact is, that life is too short to be occupied by aught but the present - hope and remembrance are equally a waste of time.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Life Is Too Short, Remembrance, Live In The Moment

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1860). “The Complete Works of L.E. Landon”, p.283

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• I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Stars, Destiny, Astrology

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (2003). “Poems from the Literary Gazette”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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• there can be neither politically nor morally a good which is not universal ... we cannot reform for a time or for a class, but for all and for the whole, and our very interests will draw us together in one wide bond of sympathy.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Equality, Class, Together

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1854). “The Complete Works of L. E. Landon: Containing Romance and Reality, Francesca Carrara, Traits and Trials of Early Life, Ethel Church, the Book of Beauty, Improvisatrice, the Troubadour, Venetian Bracelet, Golden Violet, Vow of the Peacock, Easter Gift, &c., &c”

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