Lord Byron Quotes
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Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.
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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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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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Good but rarely came from good advice.
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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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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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To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.
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He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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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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Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipeWhen tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe; Like other charmers, wooing the caressMore dazzlingly when daring in full dress; Yet thy true lovers more admire by farThy naked beauties-give me a cigar!
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And the commencement of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil, And find a deuced balance with the devil.
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Our life is two fold Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence Sleep hath its own world, And a wide realm of wild reality.
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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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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of both, but now as I never swim unless I tumble into the water, I don't make love till almost obliged.
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Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.
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And life 's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.
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It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution, - there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise than easy of digestion.
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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
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Sweet is revenge-especially to women.