“Again he was thrown upon his resources; which have always appeared to me the very worst things on which an unfortunate individual can be thrown in the way of amusement.”

The Monthly Magazine

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Again he was thrown upon his resources; which have always appeared to me the very worst things on which an unfortunate …" by Letitia Elizabeth Landon?
Letitia Elizabeth Landon photo
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 785
English poet and novelist 1802–1838

Related quotes

Edgar Allan Poe photo
Jane Austen photo
John Banville photo
Frances Hodgson Burnett photo
John Lancaster Spalding photo

“A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.”

John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) Catholic bishop

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 204

Leonardo Da Vinci photo
Friedrich Nietzsche photo
Mark Twain photo
El Greco photo

“.. because in this way the form will be perfect and not reduced, which is the worst thing that can happen to a figure.”

El Greco (1541–1614) Greek painter, sculptor and architect

Quote of El Greco, 1582-84; as cited by Marina Lambraki-Plaka, in El Greco, p. 57-59; as quoted in Wikipedia/El Greco: 'Technique and Style'
on making his painting 'The Virgin of the Immaculate Conception' https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/El_Greco_-_The_Virgin_of_the_Immaculate_Conception_-_WGA10585.jpg El Greco asked permission to lengthen the altarpiece itself by another 1.5 feet (0.46 m) - the human body became even more otherworldly in his later works

Johann Gottlieb Fichte photo

Related topics