Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes about Heart

I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Life, Heart, Thinking

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.92

My tears are buried in my heart, like cave-locked fountains sleeping.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Heart, Sleep, Tears

"The Venetian Bracelet, The Lost Pleiad, A History of the Lyre, and Other Poems". Book by Letitia Elizabeth Landon, 1829.

... many a heart is caught in the rebound ... Pride may be soothed by the ready devotion of another; vanity may be excited the more keenly by recent mortification.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Heart, Pride, Vanity

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1834). “Francesca Carrara”, p.51

How often, in this cold and bitter world, is the warm heart thrown back upon itself! Cold, careless, are we of another's grief; we wrap ourselves in sullen selfishness.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Grief, Heart, Selfishness

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1841). “Life and literary remains of L.E.L. [ed.] by L. Blanchard”

Oh, no! my heart can never be Again in lightest hopes the same; The love that lingers there for thee Hath more of ashes than of flame.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Heart, Flames, Ashes

And this is woman's fate: all her affections are called into life by winning flatteries, and then thrown back upon themselves to perish; and her heart, her trusting heart, filled with weak tenderness, is left to bleed or break!

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Heart, Fate, Winning

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1835). “The Miscellaneous Poetical Works”, p.173

The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Heart, Eye, Dark

My heart is its own grave!

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Heart, My Heart, Graves

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1860). “The Complete Works of L.E. Landon”

It is a curious fact, but a fact it is, that your witty people are the most hard-hearted in the world. The truth is, fancy destroys feeling. The quick eye to the ridiculous turns every thing to the absurd side; and the neat sentence, the lively allusion, and the odd simile, invest what they touch with something of their own buoyant nature. Humor is of the heart, and has its tears; but wit is of the head, and has only smiles - and the majority of those are bitter.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Witty, Heart, Humor

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1854). “The Complete Works of L. E. Landon: Containing Romance and Reality, Francesca Carrara, Traits and Trials of Early Life, Ethel Church, the Book of Beauty, Improvisatrice, the Troubadour, Venetian Bracelet, Golden Violet, Vow of the Peacock, Easter Gift, &c., &c”, p.401