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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  • I'll publish right or wrong. Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
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  • If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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  • If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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  • If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
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  • In general I do not draw well with literary men - not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.
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  • In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
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  • In hope to merit Heaven by making earth a Hell.
    Childe Harold 1, 20
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  • It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a ''grand peut-''tre'' - but still it is a grand one. Everybody clings to it -the stupidest, and dullest, and wickedest of human bipeds is still persuaded that he is immortal.
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  • It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.
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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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  • It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe -you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
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  • It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.
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  • It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts - you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
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  • 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.
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  • Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.
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  • Let these describe the indescribable.
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  • Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda water the day after.
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  • Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
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  • Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.
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  • Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.
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