Lord Byron Quotes
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Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight.
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Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
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To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still the master's own, Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone, Unhonour'd falls, unnoticed all his worth, Denied in heaven the soul he held on earth, While man, vain insect hopes to be forgiven, And claims himself a sole exclusive heaven.
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If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself...that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, he will find out he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.
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I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one.
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They never fail who dieIn a great cause.
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Till taught by pain, men know not water's worth.
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Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife, He would have written sonnets all his life?.
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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By Heaven! it is a splendid sight to see For one who hath no friend, no brother there.
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From the mingled strength of shade and light A new creation rises to my sight, Such heav'nly figures from his pencil flow, So warm with light his blended colors glow. . . . . The glowing portraits, fresh from life, that bring Home to our hearts the truth from which they spring.
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.
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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
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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.
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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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And those who saw, it did surprise, Such drops could fall from human eyes.
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Retirement accords with the tone of my mind; I will not descend to a world I despise.
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Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills.
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This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it much better, for study is the last pursuit of the society; the Master eats, drinks, and sleeps, the Fellows drink, dispute and pun, the employments of the undergraduates you will probably conjecture without my description.
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In commitment, we dash the hopes of a thousand potential selves.
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Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man, without his vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the memory of Botswain, a dog.
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Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.