The attention of a superior is too flattering to our vanity not to call it forth. Letitia Elizabeth Landon More Quotes by Letitia Elizabeth Landon More Quotes From Letitia Elizabeth Landon Ignorance, far more than idleness, is the mother of all the vices; and how recent has been the admission, that knowledge should be the portion of all? The destinies of the future lie in judicious education; an education that must be universal, to be beneficial. Letitia Elizabeth Landon mother education lying There is no denying that there are 'royal roads' through existence for the upper classes; for them, at least, the highways are macadamized, swept, and watered. Letitia Elizabeth Landon royal wealth class Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous. Letitia Elizabeth Landon tragic ridiculous jealousy Every feeling that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when it concentrates itself on the present. The miserable wants, the small desires, and the petty pleasures of daily existence have nothing in common with those mighty dreams which, looking forward for action and action's reward, redeem the earth over which they walk with steps like those of an angel, beneath which spring up glorious and immortal flowers. The imagination is man's noblest and most spiritual faculty ; and that ever dwells on the to-come. Letitia Elizabeth Landon Nothing circulates so rapidly as a secret. Letitia Elizabeth Landon 'Tis a strange mystery, the power of words! Life is in them, and death. A word can send The crimson colour hurrying to the cheek. Hurrying with many meanings; or can turn The current cold and deadly to the heart. Anger and fear are in them; grief and joy Are on their sound; yet slight, impalpable:-- A word is but a breath of passing air. Letitia Elizabeth Landon A light compliment was never yet breathed by love. Letitia Elizabeth Landon A man above thirty cannot enter into the wild visions of an enthusiastic girl. Letitia Elizabeth Landon Alas ! the contrast between us, and what We can create; That man should be so little in himself, His works so great. Letitia Elizabeth Landon Best intentions are not the best things in the world to marry upon. Letitia Elizabeth Landon Conjugal government requires its treatises. A young woman setting out in life lacks a printed guide. Her cookery-book, however, may afford some useful hints till one be actually directed to the important subject just mentioned. Many well-known receipts are equally available for a batterie de cuisine or du cœur. Your roasted husband is subdued by the fire of fierce words and fiercer looks — your broiled husband, under the pepper and salt of taunt and innuendo — your stewed husband, under the constant application of petty vexations — your boiled husband dissolves under the watery influences — while your confectionized husband goes through a course of the blanc mange of flattery, or the preserves and sweets of caresses and smiles. Letitia Elizabeth Landon Each was changed in himself, and yet each thought the other only changed, himself the same. Letitia Elizabeth Landon Every age has its characteristic, and our present one is not behind its predecessors in that respect ; it is the age of systems, every system enforced by a treatise. Letitia Elizabeth Landon Grief, after all, is like smoking in a damp country — what was at first a necessity becomes afterwards an indulgence. Letitia Elizabeth Landon Hope and experience take two different sides of an argument. Letitia Elizabeth Landon I am a woman : — tell me not of fame ! Letitia Elizabeth Landon I dreamed a dream, that I had flung a chain of roses around Love, — I woke, and found I had chained Sorrow. Letitia Elizabeth Landon I like a cat because it does not disguise its selfishness with any flattering hypocrisies. Its attachment is not to yourself, but to your house. Let it but have food, and a warm lair among the embers, and it heeds not at whose expense. Then it has the spirit to resent aggression. You shall beat your dog, and he will fawn upon you; but a cat never forgives : it has no tender mercies, and it torments before it destroys its prey. Letitia Elizabeth Landon I wrote my name upon the sand; I thought I wrote it on thine heart. Letitia Elizabeth Landon Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon — that which raises it from the earth. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
