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Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.
— Letitia Landon
The lover and the physician are each popular from the same cause - we talk to them of nothing but ourselves ...
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Go to any bookstore, and you'll see thousands of books on etiquette, which suggests there's a lot of self-help going on. There is hope.
— Letitia Baldrige
Of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Business before pleasure ...
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
One cannot reject an entire nation because of the politics of its leader.
— Letitia Baldrige
Anybody's applause is better than nobody's.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Good taste is synonymous with success in all fields of life. It's not a question of money, but of a trained eye.
— Letitia Baldrige
The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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
Praise - actual personal praise - oftener frets and embarrasses than it encourages. It is too small when too near.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
People are less grateful than they used to be.
— Letitia Baldrige
Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
All of the First Ladies were good, creative and strong. I've always said they should be paid.
— Letitia Baldrige
We can only love what we know.
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
The custom of going to a party only when we have been invited is a necessary, attractive, decent way for a party to evolve.
— Letitia Baldrige
To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage ...
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
There is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
All sweeping assertions are erroneous.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Suicide and antipathy to fires in a bedroom seem to be among the national characteristics. Perhaps the same moral cause may originate both.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
If golfers know they look good, they will play better. I think that is valid for men and women.
— Letitia Baldrige
The past is perpetual youth to the heart.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Alas! we makeA ladder of our thoughts, where angels step,But sleep ourselves at the foot: our high resolvesLook down upon our slumbering acts.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
He who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in youth, it is the habit of ridicule.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
To have people to the White House and worry about the price of things is laughable.
— Letitia Baldrige
Forgotten rimes, and college themes, Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes; A mass of heterogeneous matter. A chaos dark, nor land nor water.
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
We are ourselves our happiness.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd - of his love.
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
You speak of beginning the education of your son. The moment he was able to form an idea his education was already begun ...
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Farewell's a bitter word to say.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
It behooves everyone to move forward, think forward.
— Letitia Baldrige
I've become a master of the apology.
— Letitia Baldrige
Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
How beautiful, how buoyant, and glad is morning!
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The world has little to bestow Where two fond hearts in equal love are joined.
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
Time deals gently with me; and though I feel that I descend, the slope is easy ...
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
Oh, no! my heart can never beAgain in lightest hopes the same;
The love that lingers there for thee
Hath more of ashes than of flame. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
If an author would have us feel a strong degree of compassion, his characters must not be too perfect.
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
When you pass 70, you forget your enemies. You think about the nice people instead.
— Letitia Baldrige
More young people are aware of the need for thank yous and aware of the tremendous impression they make.
— Letitia Baldrige
Doubleday is used to my talking about manners because I am, after all, known for that, and that's my persona.
— Letitia Baldrige
It's nice to compliment people on what they're wearing, but don't make insincere compliments.
— Letitia Baldrige
The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners.
— Letitia Baldrige
Chivalry isn't dead. It's just no longer gender-based.
— Letitia Baldrige
The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The fact is, that life is too short to be occupied by aught but the present - hope and remembrance are equally a waste of time.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Habit is our idea of eternity.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
There is no wretchedness like self-reproach.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
My tears are buried in my heart, like cave-locked fountains sleeping.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The perfect classroom is Paris.
— Letitia Baldrige
How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
If you really screw up, send roses.
— Letitia Baldrige
A woman's fame is the tomb of her happiness.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion ...
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness?
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I believe in teaching manners without causing fisticuffs.
— Letitia Baldrige
A really first-class company uses really fine stationery.
— Letitia Baldrige
A balanced guest list of mixed elements is to a successful party what the seasoning is to a culinary triumph.
— Letitia Baldrige
Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable ...
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep ...
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
All beginnings are very troublesome things ...
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I don't ever knock anybody; that's bad manners.
— Letitia Baldrige
It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves ...
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
We need to reach out - spend more time together.
— Letitia Baldrige
Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I never cast a flower away,A gift of one who car'd for me;
A flower
a faded flower,
But it was done reluctantly. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The well taught philosophic mind To all compassion gives; Casts round the world an equal eye, And feels for all that lives.
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Were it not better to forgetThan but remember and regret — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
At tea time, all the noise, greed and aggressiveness of the '80s can be drowned out. For 45 minutes, anyway.
— Letitia Baldrige
So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
Nothing but love can answer to love; no affection, no kindness, no care, can supply its place: it is its own sweet want.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
We love music for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
In came ... a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
If somebody is disrespecting somebody, we should step in - even at the risk of getting slugged over the head.
— Letitia Baldrige
When someone is wearing a dress that makes her look fat, don't say 'That's a great dress.' It always comes off badly.
— Letitia Baldrige
Manners are nothing more than thinking about somebody else.
— Letitia Baldrige
The polished executive is ultimately the happy executive who can walk gracefully through life.
— Letitia Baldrige
I never made any money, but I had the best jobs in the world.
— Letitia Baldrige
I would give worlds, could I believeOne-half that is profess'd me;
Affection! could I think it Thee,
When Flattery has caress'd me. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
We need grace in our lives, and I'm not talking about heavenly grace. I'm talking about human grace. We should try and be warm and friendly.
— Letitia Baldrige
To enjoy yourself is the easy method to give enjoyment to others ...
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Jeans should never be worn to someone's home if you are having dinner there.
— Letitia Baldrige
How very satisfactory those discussions must be, where each party retains their own opinion!
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon