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.
suicide fire may
Suicide and antipathy to fires in a bedroom seem to be among the national characteristics. Perhaps the same moral cause may originate both.
equality class together
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.
fame
Fame is bought by happiness.
lasts chance can-do
That which is always within our reach, is always the last thing we take; and the chances are, that what we can do every day, we never do at all.
dating want seems
marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.
suicide curiosity
Curiosity is its own suicide ...
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 ...