Lord Byron Quotes
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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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Sweet is revenge-especially to women.
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A material resurrection seems strange and even absurd except for purposes of punishment, and all punishment which is to revenge rather than correct must be morally wrong, and when the World is at an end, what moral or warning purpose can eternal tortures answer?
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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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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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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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Tis said that persons living on annuities Are longer lived than others.
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.
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Let joy be unconfined.
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Have not all past human beings parted, And must not all the present, one day part?
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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give, No hollow aid; alone - man with God must strive.
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The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.
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A quiet conscience makes one so serene.
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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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For the night Shows stars and women in a better light.
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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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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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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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I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
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What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.