Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Assuredly, meeting after absence, is one of - ah, no! - it is life's most delicious feeling.Collection: Feelings
Conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep.Collection: Children
Suicide and antipathy to fires in a bedroom seem to be among the national characteristics. Perhaps the same moral cause may originate both.Collection: Suicide
Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.Collection: Next
It is a curious fact, but a fact it is, that your witty people are the most hard-hearted in the world. The truth is, fancy destroys feeling. The quick eye to the ridiculous turns every thing to the absurd side; and the neat sentence, the lively allusion, and the odd simile, invest what they touch with something of their own buoyant nature. Humor is of the heart, and has its tears; but wit is of the head, and has only smiles - and the majority of those are bitter.Collection: Witty
The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.Collection: Heart
Eyes that droop like summer flowers.Collection: Summer
We are rarely wrong when we act from impulse.Collection: Impulse
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!Collection: Heart
Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous.Collection: Jealousy
Sneering springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in doubt.Collection: Spring
Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.Collection: Regret
The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.Collection: Poverty
Our first love-letter ... There is so much to be said, and which no words seems exactly to say - the dread of saying too much is so nicely balanced by the fear of saying too little. Hope borders on presumption, and fear on reproach.Collection: First Love
A woman's fame is the tomb of her happiness.Collection: Fame
ingratitude is the necessary consequence of receiving favors of which we are ashamed.Collection: Gratitude