Quotes by Lord George Byron with joy

Lord George Byron

Lord George Byron

English poet

Lived from: 1788 - 1824

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 22 january 1788 Died: 19 april 1824

  • Sleep hath its own world, and a wide realm of wild reality. And dreams in their development have breath, and tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy.
  • I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.
  • 't Is pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; I a book's a book, although there's nothing in't.
  • 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.
  • It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem - and in my esteem age is not estimable.
  • The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.
  • It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.
  • A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
  • What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
  • Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.
  • I stood among them, but not of them; in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
  • Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
  • I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
  • What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
  • 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.
  • Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way; - all this comes of Authorship.
  • The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.
  • America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
  • Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
  • Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
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  • All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.
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  • All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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  • Sleep hath its own world, and a wide realm of wild reality. And dreams in their development have breath, and tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy.
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  • To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.
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