Quotes by Byron, Lord

"Think not I am what I appear."

Byron, Lord on appearance
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"What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements."

Byron, Lord on army and navy   

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

Byron, Lord on love
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"Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love."

Byron, Lord on love
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"Who loves, raves."

Byron, Lord on love
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"The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite."

Byron, Lord on love
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"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 on love
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"Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil."

Byron, Lord on marriage   

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

Byron, Lord on marriage
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"I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all."

Byron, Lord on marriage   

"I know that two and two make four -- and should be glad to prove it too if I could -- though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure."

Byron, Lord on mathematics
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"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 moment --but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?"

Byron, Lord on memory   

"What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman."

Byron, Lord on women
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"A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover -- but will sooner or later find a tyrant."

Byron, Lord on women
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"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 on women
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"But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation."

Byron, Lord on women   

"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 on women
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"I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes -- and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue."

Byron, Lord on misers and misery   

"Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labor in your fields and serve in your houses -- that man your navy, and recruit your army -- that have enabled you to defy the world, and can also defy you when neglect and calamity have driven them to despair. You may call the people a mob; but do not forget that a mob too often speaks the sentiments of the people."

Byron, Lord on mobs   

"I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week."

Byron, Lord on money   

"Ready money is Aladdin's lamp."

Byron, Lord on money   

"Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp."

Byron, Lord on money   

"Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure."

Byron, Lord on morality
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"We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive."

Byron, Lord on motives
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"Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil."

Byron, Lord on mystery
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"Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world."

Byron, Lord on nationalities and nationalism   

"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 on nature
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"The good old times -- all times when old are good."

Byron, Lord on nostalgia
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"Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore."

Byron, Lord on oceans   

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

Byron, Lord on opinions   

"The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain."

Byron, Lord on pain
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"Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling."

Byron, Lord on art   

"There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?"

Byron, Lord on passion
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"In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love."

Byron, Lord on passion
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"Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen."

Byron, Lord on patriotism
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"Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!"

Byron, Lord on payment   

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"Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates -- but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages."

Byron, Lord on philosophers and philosophy   

"There is no sterner moralist than pleasure."

Byron, Lord on pleasure
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"Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much -- and pleases me so much (when my passions are not interested in one way or the other) that I go on wondering for a week to come."

Byron, Lord on pleasure   

"As to Don Juan, confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not good English? It may be profligate, but is it not life, is it not the thing? Could any man have written it who has not lived in the world? and tooled in a post-chaise? in a hackney coach? in a Gondola? against a wall? in a court carriage? in a vis a vis? on a table? and under it?"

Byron, Lord on poetry and poets