Lord Byron Quotes
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The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.
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War, war is still the cry,-"war even to the knife!"
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Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!
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Fare thee well, and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well.
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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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To have joy, one must share it.
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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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Whatsoever thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought, and softly bodied forth.
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By headless Charles see heartless Henry lies.
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I love not man the less, but Nature more.
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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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Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise Thee and thy suit, though told in moving tropes: Disguise even tenderness if thou art wise.
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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
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I have always laid it down as a maxim -and found it justified by experience -that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex -but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.
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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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Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.
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He who is only just is cruel; who Upon the earth would live were all judged justly?
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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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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
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Let joy be unconfined.
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There is a tear for all who die, A mourner o'er the humblest grave.
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Despair and Genius are too oft connected.
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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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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.