Lord Byron
100 quotations
What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
The good old times -- all times when old are good.
Opinions are made to be changed --or how is truth to be got at?
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!
There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
Poetry should only occupy the idle.
This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.
The Cardinal is at his wit's end -- it is true that he had not far to go.
The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
They never fail who die in a great cause.
Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
Science is but the exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance.
Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
Sincerity may be humble, but she cannot be servile.
Smiles form the channel of a future tear.
I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.