In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.


Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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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
Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
My attachment has neither the blindness of the beginning, nor the microscopic accuracy of the close ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
Her great merit is finding out mine -- there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
Oh! might I kiss those eyes of fire,
A million scarce would quench desire;
Still would I stee...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days --...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
What a strange thing is the propagation of life! A bubble of seed which may be spilt in a whore's la...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
Think not I am what I appear.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
The Angels were all singing out of tune, and hoarse with having little else to do, excepting to wind...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda water the day after.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution,...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spit...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
Science is but the exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
That low vice, curiosity!
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
Oh! too convincing -- dangerously dear -- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapor.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
What an antithetical mind! -- tenderness, roughness -- delicacy, coarseness -- sentiment, sensuality...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
Our thoughts take the wildest flight: Even at the moment when they should arrange themselves in thou...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
I like his holiness very much, particularly since an order, which I understand he has lately given, ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pict...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of b...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
I swims in the Tagus all across at once, and I rides on an ass or a mule, and swears Portuguese, and...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON