"Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can depend on someone to make them subtle."

Enright, D. J. | Heroes and Heroism | 1 bookmarks

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

Byron, Lord | Love | 1 bookmarks

"Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations."

Byron, Lord | Lovers | 3 bookmarks

"All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage."

Byron, Lord | Marriage | 1 bookmarks

"There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken."

Byron, Lord | Men and Women | 1 bookmarks

"I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation -- they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves."

Byron, Lord | Men and Women | 2 bookmarks

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

Byron, Lord | Motives | 2 bookmarks

"As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others."

Byron, Lord | Nature | 2 bookmarks

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

Byron, Lord | Opinions | 1 bookmarks

"Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen."

Byron, Lord | Patriotism | 2 bookmarks