Lord Byron Quotes
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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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Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe;... Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties - give me a cigar!
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Liberty - eternal spirit of the chainless mind...
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It is not one man nor a million, but the spirit of liberty that must be preserved. The waves which dash upon the shore are, one by one, broken, but the ocean conquers nevertheless. It overwhelms the Armada, it wears out the rock. In like manner, whatever the struggle of individuals, the great cause will gather strength.
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No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!
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A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.
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Such hath it been - shall be - beneath the sunThe many still must labour for the one!
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Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days - whatever there may be for the dust - the thirty-third year of an ill-spent life, which, after a lingering disease of many months sank into a lethargy, and expired, January 22d, 1821, A.D. leaving a successor inconsolable for the very loss which occasioned its existence.
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And those who saw, it did surprise, Such drops could fall from human eyes.
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Poetry should only occupy the idle.
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For all we know that English people are/ Fed upon beef - I won't say much of beer/ Because 'tis liquor only, and being far/ From this my subject, has no business here;/ We know too, they are very fond of war,/ A pleasure - like all pleasures - rather dear;/ So were the Cretans - from which I infer/ That beef and battle both were owing her.
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Till taught by pain, men know not water's worth.
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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.
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Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste.
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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.
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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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There are some feelings time cannot benumb, Nor torture shake.
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Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave.
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There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.
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Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.
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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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I live,But live to die: and, living, see no thingTo make death hateful, save an innate clinging,A loathsome and yet all invincibleInstinct of life, which I abhor, as IDespise myself, yet cannot overcome-And so I live. Would I had never lived!
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Religion-freedom-vengeance-what you will, A word's enough to raise mankind to kill.
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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.