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Quotes from Ethel Churchill — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

1802–1838 England

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After all, wit is something like sunshine in a frost—very sharp, very bright, but very cold and uncomfortable.

Ethel Churchill (1838)

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.

Ethel Churchill (1837)

Vanity is the real lever with which Archimedes said he could move the earth;...

Ethel Churchill (1837)

Only by looking up, can we see heaven.

Ethel Churchill (1837)

Ah, tell me not that memory
Sheds gladness o'er the past ;
What is recalled by faded flowers,
Save that they did not last?
Were it not better to forget,
Than but remember and regret?

Ethel Churchill (1837)

Real feeling is shy of expression

Ethel Churchill (1837)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Letitia Elizabeth Landon (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.