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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  • Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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  • Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
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  • Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
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  • Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
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  • Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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  • Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.
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  • My attachment has neither the blindness of the beginning, nor the microscopic accuracy of the close of such liaisons.
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  • My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.
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  • My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that ''Carpe Diem'' is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds - for who can trust to tomorrow?
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  • My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.
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  • No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!
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  • None are all evil,
    quickening round his heart,
    one softer feeling would not yet depart.
    The corsair 1, 12, 1
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  • Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
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  • 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.
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  • Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
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  • O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapor.
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  • Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!
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  • Oh! too convincing - dangerously dear - In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!
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  • Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?
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  • Our thoughts take the wildest flight: Even at the moment when they should arrange themselves in thoughtful order.
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