Lord Byron Quotes

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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A wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
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A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.
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Absence - that common cure of love.
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!
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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
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And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description.
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As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
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As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
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Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
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But - Oh! ye lords of ladies intellectual, inform us truly, have they not hen-pecked you all?
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But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink,Falling like dew, upon a thought, producesThat which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
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Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
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Fame is the thirst of youth.
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Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.
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Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
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For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.
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For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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Friendship is Love without his wings!
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He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.
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He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?
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He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
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Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
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I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
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I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
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I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day.
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I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.
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I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.
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I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
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I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited; women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate now and then, but every turn of the card and cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive - besides one can game ten times longer than one can do any thing else.
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I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
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I have always laid it down as a maxim -and found it justified by experience -that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex -but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.
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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
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I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world -not much remembered when the ball is over.
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I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
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I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
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I love not man the less, but Nature more.
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
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I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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