Letitia Elizabeth Landon (14 August 1802 – 15 October 1838), English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L. E. L. Read full biography of Letitia Elizabeth Landon →
I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.
Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.
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.
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.
All sweeping assertions are erroneous.
An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.
Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.
Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?
No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (14 August 1802 – 15 October 1838), English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L. E. L.