Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes
1802 – 1838
English poet and novelist, who wrote as "L.E.L."
“Methinks adieu / Is cold, when uttered with aught else but tears.”
“It was not song that taught me love, / But it was love that taught me song.”
“So much to win, so much to lose, / No marvel that I fear to choose.”
“Deceit is this world's passport: who would dare, / However pure the breast, to lay it bare?”
“Gratitude and Vanity are the nurses that rock the cradle of Love.”
“Ah! love and song are but a dream, / A flower's faint shade on life's dark stream.”
“For human tears are lava-drops, / That scorch and wither as they flow;”
“Though many a flower may win my praise, / The violet has my love;”
“Nothing discourages a child so much as the impossibility of pleasing.”
“Fame to a woman is indeed but a royal mourning in purple for happiness.”
“Time is the great leveller, but he is also the sanctifier and the beautifier.”
“But youth is as a flowing stream, on whose current the shadow may rest but not remain.”
“Can loveliness lose its power ? Ah, yes ! when love can lose its truth.”
“Hope deferred is sickness to the heart — and she was now suffering that sickness, at its worst.”
“The world is as the sea, in whose salt waves, / Like streams, we lose the freshness of our youth.”
