Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Letitia Elizabeth Landon, English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L.E.L...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth14 August 1802
jealousy ridiculous tragic
Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous.
attachment our-love return
Strange the affection which clings to inanimate objects - objects which cannot even know our love! But it is not return that constitutes the strength of an attachment.
wish tests deceiving
It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves ...
wish half neighbor
In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.
causes physicians lovers
The lover and the physician are each popular from the same cause - we talk to them of nothing but ourselves ...
truth-is should allowance
The truth is, we never make for others the allowance we make for ourselves; and we should deny even our own words, could we hear them spoken by another.
names pleasure discontent
he who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent.
eye heart dark
The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.
effort remember forget
The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.
believe school thinking
One would think that an unsuccessful volume was like a degree in the school of reviewing. One unread work makes the judge bitter enough; but a second failure, and he is quite desperate in his damnation. I do believe one half of the injustice - the severity of 'the ungentle craft' originates in its own want of success: they cannot forgive the popularity which has passed them over ...
curiosity courtesy variance
Curiosity and courtesy are very often at variance.
suicide curiosity
Curiosity is its own suicide ...
dating want seems
marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.
doubt facts stubborn
doubts, like facts, are stubborn things.