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Lord Byron Quotes About Life

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Lord Byron Quotes About Love

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

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.

More Quotes by Lord Byron

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.

He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.

Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.

I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.

All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.

What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.

Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.

Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

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