Lord Byron Quotes
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Had sigh'd to many, though he loved but one.
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And life 's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.
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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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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
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Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.
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Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.
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Let joy be unconfined.
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I cannot conceive why people will always mix up my own character and opinions with those of the imaginary beings which, as a poet, I have the right and liberty to draw.
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My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea.
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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To have joy, one must share it.
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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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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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Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!
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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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Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep From leaf to leaf.
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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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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.
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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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For the night Shows stars and women in a better light.
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.