Romance and Reality
A source page for quotes linked to Letitia Elizabeth Landon.
“My tears are buried in my heart, like cave-locked fountains sleeping.”
“But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way”
“So much to win, so much to lose, No marvel that I fear to choose.”
“Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee.”
“Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.”
“A sealed book, at whose contents we tremble.”
“The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.”
“Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.”
“Eyes that droop like summer flowers.”
“Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness?”
“Assuredly, meeting after absence, is one of - ah, no! - it is life's most delicious feeling.”
“anybody's applause is better than nobody's.”
“All beginnings are very troublesome things.”
“It is strange what society will endure from its idols.”
“Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human.”
“Confidence is its own security.”
“Conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep.”
“The fearless make their own way.”