Lord Byron
100 quotations
A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.
It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity.
I stood among them, but not of them; in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.
A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
Prolonged endurance tames the bold.
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.
Fame is the thirst of youth.
All farewells should be sudden, when forever.
Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star.
Romances I never read like those I have seen.
Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.
Friendship is Love without his wings!
All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda water the day after.
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.
Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?
Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.