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The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.


Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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TIM VINE I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY I much prefer staying at home with the wife and kids, watching TV or reading a book.
BARRY GIBB The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
ANTHONY BURGESS I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
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ANDREA RISEBOROUGH Don't cry while you are reading the book wait until you are done reading it.
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AMAN JASSAL No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.
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JOE ORTON I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book.
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LINI READING They're going to be excited. They are a much improved team.
LINI READING We started out slow. The kids came back in the second half.
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LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!
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There is s...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.
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LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON They never fail who die in a great cause.
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LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON And after all, what is a lie?
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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.
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LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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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.
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LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms,...
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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.
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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?
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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 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 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...
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