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Lord Byron Quotes
If we must have a
tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the
business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
Lord Byron
In England the
only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.
Lord Byron
In solitude, where
we are least alone.
Lord Byron
It is odd but
agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets
me up for a time.
Lord Byron
It is useless to
tell one not to reason but to believe -you might as well tell a man not
to wake but sleep.
Lord Byron
It is very certain
that the desire of life prolongs it.
Lord Byron
John Adams lies
here, of the parish of Southwell, a carrier who carried his can to his
mouth well; he carried so much, and he carried so fast, he could carry
no more - so was carried at last; for the liquor he drank, being too
much for one, he could not carry off - so he's now carri-on.
Lord Byron
Keep thy smooth
words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.
Lord Byron
Let none think to
fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.
Lord Byron
Let these describe
the indescribable.
Lord Byron
Life's enchanted
cup sparkles near the brim.
Lord Byron
Like the measles,
love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
Lord Byron
Lovers may be -
and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends,
because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of
Self in all their speculations.
Lord Byron
Man is born
passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the
love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at
present a sad jar of atoms.
Lord Byron
Man, being
reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
Lord Byron
Man's love is of
man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first
passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is
love.
Lord Byron
Men are the sport
of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.
Lord Byron
Men love in haste,
but they detest at leisure.
Lord Byron
Men think highly
of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker
than dust, straw, and feathers.
Lord Byron
My attachment has
neither the blindness of the beginning, nor the microscopic accuracy of
the close of such liaisons.
Lord Byron
My time has been
passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days
hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been
obliged to crop even the seconds-for who can trust to tomorrow?
Lord Byron
My turn of mind is
so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks
out in spite of me every now and then.
Lord Byron
No ear can hear
nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!
Lord Byron
O Fame! if I e'er
took delight in thy praises, 'Twas less for the sake of thy
high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one
discover The thought that I was not unworthy to love her.
Lord Byron
Oh Time! the
beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer
when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!
Lord Byron
Oh! there is an
organ playing in the street - a waltz too! I must leave off to listen.
Lord Byron
One certainly has
a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is
more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a
bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other.
Lord Byron
Opinions are made
to be changed -or how is truth to be got at?
Lord Byron
Out of chaos God
made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.
Lord Byron
Posterity will
never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of
Castlereagh: stop, traveler, and piss.
Lord Byron
Prolonged
endurance tames the bold.
Lord Byron
Ready money is
Aladdin's lamp.
Lord Byron
Roll on, deep and
dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man
marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
Lord Byron
Society is now one
polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
Lord Byron
Sometimes we are
less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being
undeceived by them.
Lord Byron
Sorrow is
knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of
knowledge is not the tree of life.
Lord Byron
Switzerland is a
curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic
region of the world.
Lord Byron
The 'good old
times' - all times when old are good.
Lord Byron
The Angels were
all singing out of tune, and hoarse with having little else to do,
excepting to wind up the sun and moon or curb a runaway young star or
two.
Lord Byron
The beginning of
atonement is the sense of its necessity.
Lord Byron
The best way will
be to avoid each other without appearing to do so - or if we jostle, at
any rate not to bite.
Lord Byron
The busy have no
time for tears.
Lord Byron
The Cardinal is at
his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.
Lord Byron
The dead have been
awakened - shall I sleep? The world's at war with tyrants - shall I
crouch? the harvest's ripe - and shall I pause to reap? I slumber not;
the thorn is in my couch; Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear, its
echo in my heart.
Lord Byron
The dew of
compassion is a tear.
Lord Byron
The king-times are
fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like
mist; but the peoples will conquer in the end. I shall not live to see
it, but I foresee it.
Lord Byron
The place is very
well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.
Lord Byron
The poor dog, in
life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
Lord Byron
The power of
Thought, the magic of the Mind!
Lord Byron
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