Quotes
Quotes - Byron
And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.
And when we think we lead, we are most led.
Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'd;And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill,And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still! - Destruction of Sennacherib, The.
I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.
To fly from, need not be to hate, makind: All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain. - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, 1818.
Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a momentâbut who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?
I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.
There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
Adversity is the first path to truth. - Don Juan.
