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
sweeping assertion
All sweeping assertions are erroneous.
applause
anybody's applause is better than nobody's.
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!
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.
imagination solitude doubt
Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.
elevates future human life looks low nature occupied
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
general people whatever
Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.