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Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.


George Gordon Byron

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LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me -- I have been more ravished mys...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON The busy have no time for tears.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not t...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom,
On thee shall press no ponderous tomb;
But on thy turf ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON In solitude, where we are least alone.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON To fly from, need not be to hate, makind:
All are not fit with them to stir and toil,
Nor ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Smiles form the channel of a future tear.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Sleep hath its own world, and a wide realm of wild reality. And dreams in their development have bre...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Sincerity may be humble, but she cannot be servile.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON The dead have been awakened -- shall I sleep? The world's at war with tyrants -- shall I crouch? the...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past--
For years fleet away with the wings of t...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON The good old times -- all times when old are good.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates -- but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fev...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatio...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire -- in the midst of myriads of...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labor in your fields and serve in your ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON So much alarmed that she is quite alarming, All Giggle, Blush, half Pertness, and half Pout.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms,...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I know that two and two make four -- and should be glad to prove it too if I could -- though I must ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter but do not admit the excuses except in cour...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, trave...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Prolonged endurance tames the bold.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave not...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON The way to be immortal (I mean not to die at all) is to have me for your heir. I recommend you to pu...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a grand peut-tre --but still it is a grand one....
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON The Cardinal is at his wit's end -- it is true that he had not far to go.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Opinions are made to be changed --or how is truth to be got at?
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of th...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
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