Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• he who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Names, Pleasure, Discontent

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1833). “The Book of Beauty: Comprising a Collection of Tales, Poems, &c”, p.36

• sight-seeing gratifies us in different ways. First, there is the pleasure of novelty; secondly, either that of admiration or fault-finding - the latter a very animated enjoyment.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Travel, Sight, Different

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.233

• What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain and pleasure by the wavering breath of passions.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Life, Pain, Passion

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

• One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Sympathy, Pleasure, Our Thoughts

• Business before pleasure.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Business, Pleasure

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1834). “Francesca Carrara”, p.200

• Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Next, Firsts, Habit

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.117

• To enjoy yourself is the easy method to give enjoyment to others.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Giving, Easy, Pleasure

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1833). “The Book of Beauty: Comprising a Collection of Tales, Poems, &c”, p.85

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