Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Letitia Elizabeth Landon (English Poet, Novelist)

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–38,) who published with her initials ‘L.E.L.,’ was an English poet and novelist. She is remembered not only for her high-spirited social life and her mysterious death but also for her verses about passionate love that reveal her lively intelligence and emotional intensity.

Born in London, Landon attended school in Chelsea. Publishing from an early age under her initials ‘L.E.L.’ allowed her to assume the literary persona of an innocent, gentle, and devoted but rejected female lover.

Landon began contributing to Literary Gazette and various Christmas annuals. Her first volume of verse was The Fate of Adelaide (1821.) Capitalizing on her periodical success, Landon’s second volume of verse The Improvisatrice (1824) went through six editions in a year. A steady stream of further volumes ensued, including The Troubadour (1825,) The Golden Violet (1826,) The Venetian Bracelet (1829,) The Vow of the Peacock (1835,) a collection of children’s stories, and Traits and Trials of Early Life (1836.)

Landon captivated London society by her wayward charm. Her works were extremely popular, and she was in great demand as a contributor to magazines and ladies’ gift books and annuals. Her novels included Romance and Reality (1831,) Francesca Carrera (1834,) and Ethel Churchill (1837.)

Landon married George Maclean, then chief administrator of the Cape Coast settlement, present-day Ghana. After arriving in Africa, Landon died in mysterious circumstances from swallowing prussic acid, by either suicide or accident.

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Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Topics: Regret

Time is the great comforter of grief, but the agency by which it works is exhaustion.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Topics: Grief

It is very pleasant to follow one’s inclinations; but unfortunately, we cannot follow them all: they are like the teeth sown by Cadmus—they spring up, get in each other’s way, and fight.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Topics: Praise

We speak of hope; but is not hope only a more gentle name for fear.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Topics: Hope

Habits are the petrefaction of feelings.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Topics: Habit

Alas, we make a ladder of our thoughts, where angels step, but sleep ourselves at the foot; our high resolves look down upon our slumbering acts.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Topics: Thought

Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Topics: Enjoyment

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Topics: Disappointment

Music moves us, and we know not why; we feel the tears, but cannot trace their source. Is it the language of some other state, born of its memory? For what can wake the soul’s strong instinct of another world like music?
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Topics: Music

Happiness is like the statue of Isis, whose veil no mortal ever raised.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Topics: Happiness

I frankly confess I have a respect for family pride.—If it be a prejudice, it is prejudice in its most picturesque shape.—But I hold it is connected with some of the noblest feelings in our nature.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Topics: Pride

Ah tell me not that memory sheds gladness over the past; what is recalled by faded flowers save that they did not last?
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Topics: Remembrance

What mockeries are our most firm resolves.—To will is ours, but not to execute. We map our future like some unknown coast, and say here is a harbor, there a rock; the one we will attain, the other shun, and we do neither; some chance gale springs up, and bears us far o’er some unfathomed sea.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Topics: Quotations, Light

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
Topics: Youth

Half the noblest passages in poetry are truisms; but these truisms are the great truths of humanity; and he is the true poet who draws them from their fountains in elemental purity, and gives us to drink.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Circumstances form the character; but like petrifying waters they harden while they form.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon

We love music for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Topics: Music

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Topics: Suffering

Half our forebodings of our neighbors, are but our wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon

O love! thine essence is thy purity! Breathe one unhallowed breath upon thy flame and it is gone forever, and but leaves a sullied vase,—its pure light lost in shame.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Topics: Love

Our sympathy is never very deep unless founded on our own feelings. We pity, but do not enter into the grief which we have never felt.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Topics: Sympathy

The powers of Time as a comforter can hardly be overstated; but the agency by which he works is exhaustion.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Few save the poor feel for the poor.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Topics: Poverty

It is the inevitable end of guilt that it places its own punishment on a chance which is sure to occur.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Topics: Guilt

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Topics: Busy, Occupation, Happiness

There is in life no blessing like affection; it soothes, it hallows, elevates, subdues, and bringeth down to earth its native heaven: life has nought else that may supply its place.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Topics: Affection

Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Topics: Employment

Charity is a calm, severe duty; it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered a merit; its fulfilment is only what we owe to each other, and is a debt never paid to its full extent.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Topics: Charity

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