“Methinks adieu / Is cold, when uttered with aught else but tears.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon, The Fate of Adelaide, 1821, Canto I, XI

About Letitia Elizabeth Landon

1802 – 1838

English poet and novelist, who wrote as "L.E.L."

“No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.”

“Yes ; look thro' the world, and this truth you will find / That, once out of sight, you are soon out of mind.”

“It was not song that taught me love, / But it was love that taught me song.”

“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law.”

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

“All that glisters is not gold.”

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

“And one man in his time plays many parts.”

“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”