Top 100 Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Business before pleasure...”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

2. “The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination – it is a good servant, but a bad master.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

3. “Curiosity and courtesy are very often at variance.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

4. “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

5. “Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

6. “An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

7. “Eyes that droop like summer flowers.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

8. “All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

9. “The lover and the physician are each popular from the same cause – we talk to them of nothing but ourselves...”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

10. “Anticipation is a bad sleeping draught.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

11. “The heart’s hushed secret in the soft dark eye.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

12. “We love music for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

13. “Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

14. “How beautiful, how buoyant, and glad is morning!”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

15. “Hard are life’s early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

16. “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.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

17. “In our road through life we may happen to meet with a man casting a stone reverentially to enlarge the cairn of another which stone he has carried in his bosom to sling against that very other’s head.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

18. “To be rude is as good as being clever.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

19. “I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

20. “The past is perpetual youth to the heart.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

21. “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

22. “In marriage, as in chemistry, opposites have often an attraction.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

23. “How often, in this cold and bitter world, is the warm heart thrown back upon itself! Cold, careless, are we of another’s grief; we wrap ourselves in sullen selfishness.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

24. “How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

25. “Delicious tears! The heart’s own dew.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

26. “The stars are so far, far away!”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

27. “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 Elizabeth Landon

28. “And this is woman’s fate: all her affections are called into life by winning flatteries, and then thrown back upon themselves to perish; and her heart, her trusting heart, filled with weak tenderness, is left to bleed or break!”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

29. “Music is the language of some other state, born of memory. For what can wake the soul’s strong instinct of some other world like music?”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

30. “I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But I hold it is connected with some of the noblest feelings in our nature.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

31. “Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

32. “Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable...”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

33. “Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion...”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

34. “Few save the poor feel for the poor.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

35. “Hope is love’s happiness, but not its life.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

36. “My tears are buried in my heart, like cave-locked fountains sleeping.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

37. “Whatever people in general do not understand, they are al ways prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

38. “Ignorance, far more than idleness, is the mother of all the vices; and how recent has been the admission, that knowledge should be the portion of all? The destinies of the future lie in judicious education; an education that must be universal, to be beneficial.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

39. “Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

40. “Shopping, true feminine felicity!”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

41. “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

42. “We are rarely wrong when we act from impulse.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

43. “Curiosity is its own suicide...”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

44. “I have no parting sigh to give, so take my parting smile.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

45. “I do love violets; they tell the history of woman’s love.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

46. “Of all false assertions that ever went into the world under the banner of a great name and the mail armor of a well-turned phrase, Locke’s comparison of the mind to a blank sheet of paper appears to me among the most untrue.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

47. “Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

48. “No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

49. “All sweeping assertions are erroneous.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

50. “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