Every other species of talent carries with it its eternity; we enjoy the work of the poet, the painter, the sculptor, only as thousands will do after us; but the actor - his memory is with his generation, and that passes away.
Letitia Elizabeth LandonI will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny.
Letitia Elizabeth LandonThe 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 LandonThe rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.
Letitia Elizabeth LandonOne would think that an unsuccessful volume was like a degree in the school of reviewing. One unread work makes the judge bitter enough; but a second failure, and he is quite desperate in his damnation. I do believe one half of the injustice - the severity of 'the ungentle craft' originates in its own want of success: they cannot forgive the popularity which has passed them over.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon