Quotes by Lord George Byron

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

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  • To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.
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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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  • Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
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  • We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
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  • We have progressively improved into a less spiritual species of tenderness - but the seal is not yet fixed though the wax is preparing for the impression.
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  • We loathe what none are left to share: I even bliss 't were woe alone to bear.
    The Giaour (1813) 19, 5
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  • What a strange thing is the propagation of life! A bubble of seed which may be spilt in a whore's lap, or in the orgasm of a voluptuous dream, might (for aught we know) have formed a Caesar or a Bonaparte - there is nothing remarkable recorded of their sires, that I know of.
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  • What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
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  • 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!
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  • What careth she for hearts when once possessed?
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  • 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.
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  • What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.
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  • What men call gallantry and gods adultery Is much more common where the climate's sultry.
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  • What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.
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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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  • When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning - how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse.
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  • When we think we lead we are most led.
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  • Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much - and pleases me so much (when my passions are not interested in one way or the other) that I go on wondering for a week to come.
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  • Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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  • Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?
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