Lord Byron quotes - page 14

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. (Lord Byron)
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. View quote
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This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal. View quote
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No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell. View quote
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Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not. View quote
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Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal. View quote
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He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse. View quote
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Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men. View quote
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There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that trusted to his truth. View quote
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But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric -- and pure invention is but the talent of a liar. View quote
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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. (Lord Byron)
Now what I love in women is, they won't or can't do otherwise than lie, but do it so well, the very truth seems falsehood to it. View quote
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The English winter - ending in July, To recommence in August. View quote
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It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship. View quote
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Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! View quote
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Critics are already made. View quote
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As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands. View quote
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When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past - For years fleet away with the wings of the dove - The dearest remembrance will still be the last, Our sweetest memorial the first kiss of love. View quote
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Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp. View quote
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Then, fare thee well, deceitful Maid! View quote
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It is not one man nor a million, but the spirit of liberty that must be preserved. The waves which dash upon the shore are, one by one, broken, but the ocean conquers nevertheless. It overwhelms the Armada, it wears out the rock. In like manner, whatever the struggle of individuals, the great cause will gather strength. (Lord Byron)
One hates an author that's all author. View quote
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Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world. View quote
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Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity. View quote
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As to ''Don Juan,'' confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing it may be bawdy, but is it not good English It may be profligate, but is it not life, is it not the thing Could any man have written it who has not lived in the world and tooled in a post-chaise in a hackney coach in a Gondola against a wall in a court carriage in a vis a vis on a table and under it. View quote
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