Lord Byron quotes - page 15

Poetry should only occupy the idle. (Lord Byron)
I have always laid it down as a maxim and found it justified by experience that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other. View quote
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There is, in fact, no law or government at all in Italy and it is wonderful how well things go on without them. View quote
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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. View quote
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Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains; They crown'd him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow. View quote
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I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse - borne away with every breath. View quote
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Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills. View quote
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Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue By female lips and eyes--that is, I mean, When both the teacher and the taught are young, As was the case, at least, where I have been They smile so when one's right and when one's wrong They smile still more. View quote
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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. View quote
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Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler. View quote
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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty. (Lord Byron)
Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile. View quote
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A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war. View quote
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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. View quote
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It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer. View quote
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I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library. View quote
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So for a good old gentlemanly vice I think I must take up with avarice. View quote
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I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world --not much remembered when the ball is over. View quote
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Think'st thou existence doth depend on time It doth but actions are our epochs. View quote
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I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes -- and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue. View quote
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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. (Lord Byron)
And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep. View quote
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But time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake. View quote
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Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates -- but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages. View quote
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The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore. View quote
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