Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes About Flattery

Quotes about: Flattery

• Alas! the praise given to the ear
  Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Ears, Flattery, Praise

• I would give worlds, could I believe
  One-half that is profess'd me;
  Affection! could I think it Thee,
  When Flattery has caress'd me.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Believe, Thinking, Giving

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1829). “The Venetian bracelet: the lost pleiad ; a history of the lyre, and other poems”, p.286

• And this is woman's fate: all her affections are called into life by winning flatteries, and then thrown back upon themselves to perish; and her heart, her trusting heart, filled with weak tenderness, is left to bleed or break!

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Heart, Fate, Winning

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1835). “The Miscellaneous Poetical Works”, p.173

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