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We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
– Lord Byron
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
– Lord Byron
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
– Lord Byron
A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
– Lord Byron
A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
– Lord Byron
A wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
– Lord Byron
A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.
– Lord Byron
Absence - that common cure of love.
– Lord Byron
Adversity is the first path to truth.
– Lord Byron
Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!
– Lord Byron
America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
– Lord Byron
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.
– Lord Byron
As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
– Lord Byron
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.
– Lord Byron
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
– Lord Byron
Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
– Lord Byron
But - Oh! ye lords of ladies intellectual, inform us truly, have they not hen-pecked you all?
– Lord Byron
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.
– Lord Byron
But words are things, and a small drop of ink,Falling like dew, upon a thought, producesThat which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
– Lord Byron
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
– Lord Byron
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.
– Lord Byron
Fame is the thirst of youth.
– Lord Byron
Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.
– Lord Byron
Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
– Lord Byron
For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.
– Lord Byron
For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
– Lord Byron
Friendship is Love without his wings!
– Lord Byron
He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.
– Lord Byron
He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?
– Lord Byron
He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
– Lord Byron
Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
– Lord Byron
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
– Lord Byron
I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
– Lord Byron
I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day.
– Lord Byron
I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.
– Lord Byron
I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.
– Lord Byron
I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
– Lord Byron
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.
– Lord Byron
I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
– Lord Byron
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.
– Lord Byron
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
– Lord Byron
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.
– Lord Byron
I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
– Lord Byron
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.
– Lord Byron
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
– Lord Byron
I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
– Lord Byron
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.
– Lord Byron
I swims in the Tagus all across at once, and I rides on an ass or a mule, and swears Portuguese, and have got a diarrhea and bites from the mosquitoes. But what of that? Comfort must not be expected by folks that go a pleasuring.
– Lord Byron
I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.
– Lord Byron
If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
– Lord Byron
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.
– Lord Byron
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 short, he was a perfect cavaliero, and to his very valet seemed a hero.
– 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
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 other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.
– 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 lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.
– 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