Lord Byron Quotes
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I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people - being always excited.
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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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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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Fare thee well, and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well.
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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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By headless Charles see heartless Henry lies.
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Go let thy less than woman's hand Assume the distaff not the brand.
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I love not man the less, but Nature more.
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So much alarmed that she is quite alarming...
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Tis pleasant purchasing our fellow-creatures; And all are to be sold, if you consider Their passions, and are dext'rous; some by features Are brought up, others by a warlike leader; Some by a place--as tend their years or natures; The most by ready cash--but all have prices, From crowns to kicks, according to their vices.
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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.
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To have joy, one must share it.
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You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
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Sweet is revenge-especially to women.
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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken.
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Nothing so difficult as a beginning In poesy, unless perhaps the end.
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They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
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But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest.
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War, war is still the cry,-"war even to the knife!"
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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
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Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way; - all this comes of Authorship.
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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.