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Lord Byron

  • Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.... Lord Byron {view}
  • The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.... Lord Byron {view}
  • Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep: and yet a third of Life is passed in sleep... Lord Byron {view}
  • Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.... Lord Byron {view}
  • I see before me the Gladiator lie: / He leans upon his hand - his manly brow / Consents to death, but conquers agony.... Lord Byron {view}
  • Alas! The love of women! it is known to be a lovely and fearful thing!... Lord Byron {view}
  • O Man! Thou feeble tenant of an hour, Debased by slavery, or corrupt by power; Who knows thee well must quit thee with disgust, Degraded mass of animated dust! Thy love is lust, thy friendship all a cheat, Thy smiles hypocrisy, thy word deceit! By n... Lord Byron {view}
  • Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, and daughters sometimes run off with the butler... Lord Byron {view}
  • 'Tis said that persons living on annuities are longer lived than others... Lord Byron {view}
  • Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil... Lord Byron {view}
  • 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.... Lord Byron {view}
  • Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.... Lord Byron {view}
  • She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes... Lord Byron {view}
  • She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies... Lord Byron {view}
  • Sleep hath its own world, and a wide realm of wild reality. And dreams in their development have breath, and tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy.... Lord Byron {view}
  • Society is no one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and the Bored... Lord Byron {view}
  • Sweet is revenge - especially to women.... Lord Byron {view}
  • I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week... Lord Byron {view}
  • But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.... Lord Byron {view}
  • Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after... Lord Byron {view}
  • Science is but the exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance.... Lord Byron {view}
  • The power of Thought, the magic of the Mind!... Lord Byron {view}
  • Now what I love in women is, they won't or can't do otherwise than lie, but do it so well, the very truth seems falsehood to it... Lord Byron {view}
  • I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited; women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate now and then, but every turn of the card and cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive -- besides one can game ten times longer than one can do any thing else.... Lord Byron {view}
  • Why did she love him? Curious fool - be still - is human love the growth of human will?... Lord Byron {view}
  • There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,There is a rapture on the lonely shore,There is society, where none intrudes,By the deep sea, and music in its roar:I love not man the less, but Nature more.... Lord Byron {view}