Top 100 Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I hate the word ‘ought’ – it always implies something dull, cold, and commonplace. The ‘ought nots’ of life are its pleasantest things.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

52. “Thou know’st how fearless is my trust in thee.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

53. “Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

54. “To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage...”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

55. “Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

56. “Farewell’s a bitter word to say.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

57. “Assuredly, meeting after absence, is one of – ah, no! – it is life’s most delicious feeling.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

58. “There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness...”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

59. “Knowledge is much like dust – it sticks to one, one does not know how.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

60. “The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

61. “Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

62. “Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

63. “A friend is never alarmed for us in the right place.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

64. “Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

65. “There is no wretchedness like self-reproach.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

66. “It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves...”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

67. “We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

68. “A sealed book, at whose contents we tremble.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

69. “One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

70. “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.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

71. “The fearless make their own way...”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

72. “All beginnings are very troublesome things...”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

73. “A woman only can understand a woman...”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

74. “Good taste is his religion, his morality, his standard, and his test.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

75. “There is no denying that there are ‘royal roads’ through existence for the upper classes; for them, at least, the highways are macadamized, swept, and watered.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

76. “If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in youth, it is the habit of ridicule.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

77. “A woman’s fame is the tomb of her happiness.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

78. “Confidence is its own security.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

79. “Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings – they rarely come single.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

80. “How very satisfactory those discussions must be, where each party retains their own opinion!”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

81. “Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

82. “It is strange what society will endure from its idols.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

83. “Childhood, whose very happiness is love.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

84. “Experience teaches, it is true; but she never teaches in time.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

85. “My heart is its own grave!”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

86. “The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

87. “We might have been – these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life’s bewailing.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

88. “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!”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

89. “It is curious how inseparable eating and kindness are with some people.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

90. “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.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

91. “Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

92. “I do not think that life has a suspense more sickening than that of expecting a letter which does not come.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

93. “Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

94. “It is amazing how much a thought expands and refines by being put into speech: I should think it could hardly know itself.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

95. “Truly, a little love-making is a very pleasant thing...”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

96. “There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody’s experience ever suits us but our own.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

97. “Perhaps, from an innate desire of justification, sorrow always exaggerates itself. Memory is quite one of Job’s friends; and the past is ever ready to throw its added darkness on the present.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

98. “In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

99. “We are ourselves our happiness.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

100. “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