It is curious how inseparable eating and kindness are with some people. Letitia Elizabeth Landon More Quotes by Letitia Elizabeth Landon More Quotes From Letitia Elizabeth Landon In marriage, as in chemistry, opposites have often an attraction. Letitia Elizabeth Landon attraction chemistry opposites Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened. Letitia Elizabeth Landon convenience happened memories A friend is never alarmed for us in the right place. Letitia Elizabeth Landon right-place Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others! Letitia Elizabeth Landon opinion genius imagination ... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity. Letitia Elizabeth Landon sanctity silence love-is In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form. Letitia Elizabeth Landon neighbor half wish The lover and the physician are each popular from the same cause - we talk to them of nothing but ourselves. Letitia Elizabeth Landon physicians causes lovers A woman only can understand a woman. Letitia Elizabeth Landon I cannot see why a taste for the country should be held so very indispensable a requisite for excellence; but really people talk of it as if it were a virtue, and as if an opposite opinion was, to say the least of it, very immoral. Letitia Elizabeth Landon opposites country people to the many, witticisms not only require to be explained, like riddles, but are also like new shoes, which people require to wear many times before they get accustomed to them. Letitia Elizabeth Landon new-shoes wit people The truth is, we never make for others the allowance we make for ourselves; and we should deny even our own words, could we hear them spoken by another. Letitia Elizabeth Landon truth-is deny should Whatever people in general do not understand, they are al ways prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious. Letitia Elizabeth Landon als political people It is amazing how much a thought expands and refines by being put into speech: I should think it could hardly know itself. Letitia Elizabeth Landon speech should thinking Youth is a season that has no repose. Letitia Elizabeth Landon repose seasons youth Shopping, true feminine felicity! Letitia Elizabeth Landon feminine felicity shopping of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate. Letitia Elizabeth Landon commit folly procrastination Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others. Letitia Elizabeth Landon projection action giving Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past. Letitia Elizabeth Landon janus repentance past From religion ... they will learn the only true lesson of equality - the conviction that our destinies are not in our own hands; they will see that no situation in life is without its share of suffering; - and this perpetual reference to a higher power ought equally to teach the rich humility, and the poor devotion. Letitia Elizabeth Landon situations-in-life destiny humility When does the mind put forth its powers? when are the stores of memory unlocked? when does wit 'flash from fluent lips?' -- when but after a good dinner? Who will deny its influence on the affections? Half our friends are born of turbots and truffles. Letitia Elizabeth Landon mind doe memories
