George Granville, Lord Landsdowne quote: "Happy the man, of mortals happiest he, Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free; Whom neither hopes deceive, nor fears torment, But lives at peace, within himself content; In thought, or act, accountable to none But to himself, and to the gods alone."

Since truth and constancy are vain, Since neither love, nor sense of pain, Nor force of reason...
GEORGE GRANVILLE, LORD LANDSDOWNE

The kiss you take is paid by that you give: The joy is mutual, and I'm still in debt.
GEORGE GRANVILLE, LORD LANDSDOWNE

But, oh! what mighty magician can assuage A woman's envy?
GEORGE GRANVILLE, LORD LANDSDOWNE

Thy thoughts to nobler meditations give, And study how to die, not how to live.
GEORGE GRANVILLE, LORD LANDSDOWNE

Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.
GEORGE GRANVILLE

What we frankly give, forever is our own.
GEORGE GRANVILLE

She will, and she will not - she grants, denies,-Consents, retracts, advances, and then flies
GEORGE GRANVILLE

What we frankly give, forever is our own
GEORGE GRANVILLE

Of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, and love in vain.
GEORGE GRANVILLE

Of all the plagues with which the world is cursed, / Of every ill, a woman is the worst.
GEORGE GRANVILLE

There is no heaven like mutual love
GEORGE GRANVILLE

Spheres of influence.
LORD G.G. LEVESON-GOWER GRANVILLE

We work really hard to stabilize everything because we're going to be here a while.
BILL GRANVILLE

You would have a real hard time getting through your day without coming in contact with something wi...
BILL GRANVILLE

Whatever it takes, production comes second. Safety comes first. There's nothing I have asked for tha...
BILL GRANVILLE

Their mission when they come here is to find out what can be done better for safety. That's the bott...
BILL GRANVILLE

It's just like a little town. People that live here don't know this is here because we're kind of qu...
BILL GRANVILLE

These guys like to be here. They like the job. Once you find a person that likes the underground, th...
BILL GRANVILLE

A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
GRANVILLE HICKS

We have waited years for this moment and the fruit has not grown bitter on the vine.
CHRISTOPHER GRANVILLE

All they see is madness. It’s the same with the other men. They see my situation, not me.
ELIZA GRANVILLE

It's some of our first shooters' time in the outdoors, we are going to use this tournament for exper...
KARI GRANVILLE

Lindsay is very dedicated and does everything she needs to do to be in the top of the field.
KARI GRANVILLE

How can man die better, Than facing fearful odds For the ashes of this fathers And the t...
LORD GEORGE LYTTLETON

Where none admire, 'tis useless to excel; Where none are beaux, 'tis vain to be a belle.
LORD GEORGE LYTTLETON

What is your sex's earliest, latest care, Your heart's supreme ambition? To be fair.
LORD GEORGE LYTTLETON

The mad, cruel, and accursed American war.
LORD GEORGE GORDON

David and his followers taught no new doctrines, in their dispersion or when they came to power, tha...
LORD GEORGE GORDON

Physicians mend or end us; but though in health we sneer; when sick we call them to attend us, witho...
LORD GEORGE BYRON

In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn.
JOHN C. GRANVILLE

Obstinacy in opinions holds the dogmatist in the chains of error, without hope of emancipation.
JOHN C. GRANVILLE

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't
JOSEPH E. GRANVILLE

That's the worst of acting on principle, one begins thinking of one's attitude instead of the use of...
HARLEY GRANVILLE BARKER

A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

We have progressively improved into a less spiritual species of tenderness -- but the seal is not ye...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover -- but will sooner or later find a tyran...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy w...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation -- they ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year imp...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit c...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatso...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

All tragedies are finished by a death,
All comedies are ended by a marriage;
The future states...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over the...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes -- and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any o...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

From the wreck of the past, which hath perish
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is s...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other pas...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is t...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much -- and pleases me so m...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

With just enough of learning to misquote.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

When we think we lead we are most led.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation -- with all the coarseness and rudeness of it...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning an...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anyth...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

Friendship is Love without his wings!
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

I have always laid it down as a maxim --and found it justified by experience --that a man and a woma...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman l...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

Who loves, raves.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a ti...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

Adversity is the first path to truth.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

All are inclined to believe what they covet, from a lottery-ticket up to a passport to Paradise.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fa...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

Romances I never read like those I have seen.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I h...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

The lapse of ages changes all things -- time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

The French courage proceeds from vanity
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

As to Don Juan, confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but i...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

Poetry should only occupy the idle.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence --this may look like affectation but it ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself...that a tiger is an optical illusion--well,...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or min...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and de...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. Fro...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

They never fail who die in a great cause.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any o...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everythi...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

And after all, what is a lie?
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to br...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hai...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,
And breathed in the face of the foe as he p...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

Critics are already made.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe --you might as well tell a man not to wake bu...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it o...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

The king-times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.
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.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

I stood among them, but not of them; in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very wil...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited; women, wine, fame, ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequen...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

History is the devil's scripture.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

And having wisdom with each studious year, in meditation dwelt, with learning wrought, and shaped hi...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inh...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

The heart will break, but broken live on.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

Hatred is the madness of the heart.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

It is not one man nor a million, but the spirit of liberty that must be preserved. The waves which d...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,
And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;
Wh...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

All farewells should be sudden, when forever.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

The dew of compassion is a tear.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain,
No more through rolling clouds to soar again, LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated wi...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

There is no instinct like that of the heart.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

Fame is the thirst of youth.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very t...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervant...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

Happy the man, of mortals happiest he, Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free; Whom neither hopes deceive, nor fears torment, But lives at peace, within himself content; In thought, or act, accountable to none But to himself, and to the gods alone.

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George Granville, Lord Landsdowne

Happy the man, of mortals happiest he, Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free; Whom neither hopes deceive, nor fears torment, But lives at peace, within himself content; In thought, or act, accountable to none But to himself, and to the gods alone.

George Granville, Lord Landsdowne

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