Truth is like the philosopher's stone, a thing not to be discovered.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes
1802–1838 England
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (August 14, 1802 – October 15, 1838) was an English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L. E.
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One should never let pleasure interfere with business.
Romance and Reality (1831)
Anybody's applause is better than nobody’s.
Francesca Carrara (1834)
Nothing deceives its possessor like vanity.
Lady Anne Granard (1842)
Nothing circulates so rapidly as a secret.
Romance and Reality (1841)
All the fairest things of earth,
Art's creations have their birth —
Still from love and death.
Out on the heartless creed which nulls the claim
Upon the heart of kindred, birth, and name.
The Golden Violet (1827)
Romance and Reality (1831)
Romance and Reality (1831)
Francesca Carrara (1834)
Romance and Reality (1831)
Ethel Churchill (1838)
Francesca Carrara (1834)
A woman only can understand a woman; and it is pleasant to be understood sometimes.
Francesca Carrara (1834)
An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
Romance and Reality (1831)
Oh, where is there the heart but knows
Love's first steps are upon the rose!
The Troubadour (1825)
Romance and Reality (1831)
The Improvisatrice (1824)
For love is like the breathing wind,
That everywhere may entrance find.
The Golden Violet (1827)
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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Letitia Elizabeth Landon (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.