Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Letitia Elizabeth Landon, English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L.E.L...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth14 August 1802
buds fragrant harvest honey whose yield
A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.
sweeping assertion
All sweeping assertions are erroneous.
kindness sometimes praise
Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.
applause
anybody's applause is better than nobody's.
kindness people eating
It is curious how inseparable eating and kindness are with some people.
idols strange fame
It is strange what society will endure from its idols.
curiosity courtesy variance
Curiosity and courtesy are very often at variance.
misery paint
There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness ...
right-place
A friend is never alarmed for us in the right place.
imagination genius opinion
Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!
attachment our-love return
Strange the affection which clings to inanimate objects - objects which cannot even know our love! But it is not return that constitutes the strength of an attachment.
shopping feminine felicity
Shopping, true feminine felicity!
humility destiny situations-in-life
From religion ... they will learn the only true lesson of equality - the conviction that our destinies are not in our own hands; they will see that no situation in life is without its share of suffering; - and this perpetual reference to a higher power ought equally to teach the rich humility, and the poor devotion.
truth-is should allowance
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.