Madeleine Quinn's Quotes

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Truth is like the philosopher's stone, a thing not to be discovered. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 2 years ago
Vanity is the real lever with which Archimedes said he could move the earth; – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 2 years ago
The past was once the future, and it wrought In the high presence of on-looking thought ; All that we have, was by its efforts brought. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 8 years ago
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 Famous Quote	added 8 years ago
Praise — actual personal praise— oftener frets and embarrasses than it encourages. It is too small when too near. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 8 years ago
There is a steep and lofty wall, Where my warders trembling stand, He who at speed shall ride round its height, For him shall be my hand. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 8 years ago
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 Famous Quote	added 8 years ago
Love has no power to look forward — the delicious consciousness of the present, a faint but delightful shadow of the past, form its eternity. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 8 years ago
A man above thirty cannot enter into the wild visions of an enthusiastic girl. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 8 years ago
A light compliment was never yet breathed by love. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 8 years ago
The first love-letter is an epoch in love's happy season — it makes assurance doubly sure — that which has hitherto, perhaps, only found utterance in sweet and hurried words, now seems to take a more tangible existence. A love-letter is a proof of how dearly, even in absence, you are remembered. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 8 years ago
Modern history might be told by a succession of dinners. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 8 years ago
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 Famous Quote	added 8 years ago
Whether wealth bring the curse of selfishness along with it, or that the leaven was in our nature, only dormant till called forth by circumstances, we are only too apt to misuse it, even as others have done before us. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 8 years ago
Hope and experience take two different sides of an argument. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 8 years ago
Best intentions are not the best things in the world to marry upon. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 8 years ago
The free pen, prone to pour out the suggestions of artless affection, vivid imagination, or domestic anecdote, is as much woman's especial instrument as the needle. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 8 years ago
Nothing is too unreasonable nor too unkind for selfishness, acted upon by vanity. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 8 years ago
The power of young Joy, like that of young Love, does not travel far on the dusty road of life in general. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 8 years ago
Shopping, true feminine felicity ! – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 8 years ago
The attention of a superior is too flattering to our vanity not to call it forth. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 8 years ago
Grief, after all, is like smoking in a damp country — what was at first a necessity becomes afterwards an indulgence. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 8 years ago
Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon — that which raises it from the earth. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 8 years ago
While bills are being brought into the House of Commons to regulate every thing, from the sweeps crying "sweep," to "emancipation, vote by ballot, and free trade," is there no county member whose "time and talents'' are devoted to "domestic policy," who will bring in a bill "for the better regulation of the marriage ceremony," and put the canonical hours later in the day ? at all events, could there not be a special clause in favour of London ? A spring morning there is the very reverse of Thomson's description ; for "delicious mildness" read "a cutting east wind;" and for "veiled in roses" substitute "smoke and fog." The streets are given up to the necessities of life — to the milkman with his cans, the butcher with his tray, the baker with his basket ; all belong to the material portion of existence. Now, marriage is (or ought to be) an affair of affections, sentiments, &c. The legislature ought to give it the full benefit of moonlight and wax-candles. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Famous Quote	added 8 years ago

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