Lord Byron Quotes
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Such hath it been - shall be - beneath the sunThe many still must labour for the one!
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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Fare thee well, and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well.
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The devil was the first democrat.
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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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Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day, They kindly leave us, though not quite alone, But in good company--the gout or stone.
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So much alarmed that she is quite alarming...
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On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet.
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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.
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My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea.
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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
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To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.
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Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.
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I love not man the less, but Nature more.
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I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people - being always excited.
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I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, . . . that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.
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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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Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!
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Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer.
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But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell.
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And those who saw, it did surprise, Such drops could fall from human eyes.
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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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Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy.
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Let joy be unconfined.