Lord Byron
100 quotations
In solitude, where we are least alone.
The busy have no time for tears.
All are inclined to believe what they covet, from a lottery-ticket up to a passport to Paradise.
Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills.
'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in it.
The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.
The power of thought, the magic of the mind.
Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
So much alarmed that she is quite alarming, All Giggle, Blush, half Pertness, and half Pout.
What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.
Adversity is the first path to truth.
I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.
The dew of compassion is a tear.
Her great merit is finding out mine -- there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapor.
Oh! too convincing -- dangerously dear -- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!
The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made.
Critics are already made.
That low vice, curiosity!
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.