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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Nothing so difficult as a beginning In poesy, unless perhaps the end.
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'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
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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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The French courage proceeds from vanity...
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My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea.
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And the commencement of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
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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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But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell.
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Sweet is revenge-especially to women.
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He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
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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?
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There is no passion, more spectral or fantastical than hate, not even its opposite, love, so peoples air, with phantoms, as this madness of the heart.
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What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great?
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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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Good but rarely came from good advice.
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Perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save.
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The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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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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Oh, Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land!
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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
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Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.