Lord Byron Quotes
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The power of thought,-the magic of the mind!
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Where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized? In him alone, Can nature show as fair?
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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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O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends their morals, never mind the pain.
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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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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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A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!
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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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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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And the commencement of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
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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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Sleep hath its own world, and the wide realm of wild reality.
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And life 's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.
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For the night Shows stars and women in a better light.
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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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'Twas strange that one so young should thus concern His brain about the action of the sky; If you think 'twas philosophy that this did, I can't help thinking puberty assisted.
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O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measur'd for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion,--at which my soul aches to think,-- Intoxicated with eternity.
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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Good but rarely came from good advice.
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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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Tis said that persons living on annuities Are longer lived than others.
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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 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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In solitude, where we are least alone.