Lord Byron Quotes

Who killed John Keats?'I,' says the Quarterly,So savage and Tartarly;''Twas one of my feats.'

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• Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a bookseller, I try to write a thank you note.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Business

• Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Country
  • America
  • Yourself

• No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Women
  • America
  • Savage

• Nothing beats an 'Archers' fan for their levels of devotion. I think it's because it's radio, and you obviously conjure up an image of the character that is so powerful.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Character
  • Think

• I don't buy things now, I buy plane tickets. The only thing I want is to make enough money to be able to travel with my children.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • Children
  • Money
  • Travel

• I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Life
  • Determination
  • Drunk

• By adverting to the dignity of this high calling our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire: and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests, not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • High
  • Savage

• Tarzan of the Apes, young and savage beast of the jungle, wondered at the cruel brutality of his own kind. Sheeta, the leopard, alone of all the jungle folk, tortured his prey. The ethics of all the others meted a quick and merciful death to their victims.Tarzan had learned from his books but scattered fragments of the ways of human beings.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Death
  • Alone
  • Ethics

• The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • People
  • Savage

• 'Man's inhumanity to man' is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.

  

  Alexander Berkman
  • Truth
  • Struggle
  • Lies

• The western nations of Europe, who now so immeasurably surpass their former savage progenitors, and stand at the summit of civilisation, owe little or none of their superiority to direct inheritance from the old Greeks, though they owe much to the written works of that wonderful people.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • People
  • Savage

• Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual matter as a twentieth-century Englishman. His explanations of primitive practices are much cruder than the meaning of these practices themselves.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Understanding
  • Spiritual
  • Savage

• Savage as a lion, timid as a rabbit, crafty as a fox...

  

  Lu Xun
  • Lion
  • Savage

• Laws fixed, certain, and uniform, are said to be the distinguishing traits of civilized from savage communities. In these last, seldom are any laws, unless it be the arbitrary and uncertain will of the strongest.

  

  Levi Woodbury
  • Savage

• There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • People
  • Peace
  • Violence

• Bullfighting is every bit as ghoulish and savage as its critics warn, but it is equally as powerful and moving as its supporters insist. Perhaps the most vexing aspect about it is that neither group is wrong: they are both telling the truth.

  

  Brin-Jonathan Butler
  • Truth
  • Moving
  • Powerful

• If you haven't signed anything, you cant be ripped off.

  

  Dave Sim

• So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.

  

  Don Cheadle
  • Men
  • Black
  • Savage

• The savage, rocky shores of Christmas Island, 200 miles south of Java, in the Indian Ocean. It's November, the moon is in its third quarter, and the sun is just setting. And in a few hours from now, on this very shore, a thousand million lives will be launched.

  

  David Attenborough
  • Sun
  • Moon
  • Christmas

• The whole underside of our society has always been violence and still is. Churches, laws - everybody seems to think that man is a noble savage. But he's only an animal. A meat-eating, talking animal. Recognize it. He also has grace and love and beauty. But don't say to me we're not violent.

  

  Sam Peckinpah
  • Society
  • Man
  • Violence

• Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard.

  

  Jose Saramago
  • America
  • Bad
  • Latin

• I never wanted to start a band to sound like Nirvana.

  

  Paul Banks Interpol
  • Band
  • Sound
  • Wanted

• Ability has nothing to do with opportunity.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Opportunity
  • Ability

• Who killed John Keats?'I,' says the Quarterly,So savage and Tartarly;''Twas one of my feats.'

  

  Lord Byron
  • Savage