Lord Byron Quotes
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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
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Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy.
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Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep From leaf to leaf.
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Perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save.
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Love rules the camp, the court, the grove - for love is Heaven, and Heaven is love.
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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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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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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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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.
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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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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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'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
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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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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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...And these vicissitudes come best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age, People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth, And wonder Providence is not more sage. Adversity is the first path to truth: He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Has won experience which is deem'd so weighty.
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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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Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave.
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
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But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless.
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To have joy, one must share it.
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Oh, Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land!
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It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment - but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?