Top 17 Quotes by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

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

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

A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?

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