Famous Quotes by George Gordon Noel Byron
- A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction ... do not all men try to abate the price... More
- Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labour in your fields and serve in... More
- What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their... More
- When Love’s delirium haunts the glowing mind,
Limping Decorum lingers far behind. More
- So much alarmed that she is quite alarming,
All Giggle, Blush, half Pertness, and half Pout. More
- I love the language, that soft bastard Latin,
Which melts like kisses from a female... More
- I am sure my bones would not rest in an English grave, or my clay mix with the earth of that... More
- Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, & what a parcel of... More
- Shelley is truth itself—and honour itself—notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about... More
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- It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts—you have no idea of the pain it gives one. More
- Such is Truth! Men dare not look her in the face, except by degrees: they mistake her for a... More
- You must recollect however that I know nothing of painting & that I detest it, unless it... More
- I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very... More
- The French courage proceeds from vanity—the German from phlegm—the Turkish from fanaticism... More
- I would rather ... have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor. More
- The great object in life is Sensation—to feel that we exist, even though in pain; it is this... More
- I see not much difference between ourselves & the Turks, save that we have foreskins and they... More
- The greenest island of my imagination. More
- The lapse of ages changes all things—time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the... More
- Reviews and magazines are at best ephemeral & superficial reading. Who thinks of the grand... More
- There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without... More
- Constancy ... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such... More
- I really am the meekest and mildest of men since Moses (though the public and mine “excellent... More
- I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and... More
- Lovers may be—and indeed generally are—enemies, but they never can be friends, because there... More
- I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness. More
- One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I... More
- Her great merit is finding out mine—there is nothing so amiable as discernment. More
- We don’t arrive at it by standing on one leg or on the first day of our setting out—but... More
- Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people. More
- I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting. More
- And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a... More
- I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence—this may look like affectation but... More
- I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it... More
- To withdraw myself from myself ... has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in... More
- It is a damned place—to be sure—but the only one in the world (at least in the English world)... More
- What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in... More
- There is no freedom in Europe—that’s certain—it is besides a worn out portion of the globe. More
- But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs... More
- The king-times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but... More
- Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life—and if Virtue is not its own... More
- Is there any thing beyond?—who knows? He that can’t tell. Who tells there is? He who don’t... More
- Opinions are made to be changed—or how is truth to be got at? More
- There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal... More
- What an antithetical mind!—tenderness, roughness—delicacy, coarseness—sentiment,... More
- I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual. More
- As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other... More
- It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a... More
- This journal is a relief. When I am tired ... out comes this, and down goes every thing. But I... More
- My attachment has neither the blindness of the beginning, nor the microscopic accuracy of the... More
- The place is very well & quiet & the children only scream in a low voice. More
- Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter but do not admit the excuses except in... More
- Last night, party at Lansdowne-House. Tonight, party at Lady Charlotte Greville’s—deplorable... More
- I look upon him to be the worst of models—though the most extraordinary of writers. More
- The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat. More
- We have progressively improved into a less spiritual species of tenderness—but the seal is not... More
- If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and... More
- I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and... More
- When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning... More
- A Republic! Look in the history of the Earth ... To be the first man—not the Dictator, not the... More
- My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the... More
- All men are intrinsical rascals, and I am only sorry that not being a dog I can’t bite them. More
- The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so—or if we jostle, at any... More
- America is a model of force and freedom & moderation—with all the coarseness and rudeness... More
- Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would... More
- There is something Pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt... More
- The Cardinal is at his wit’s end—it is true that he had not far to go. More
- As to “Don Juan,” confess ... that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be... More
- I begin to find out that nothing but virtue will do in this damned world. I am tolerably sick of... More
- There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even... More
- A Turkish bath—that marble paradise of sherbert and sodomy. More
- The way to be immortal (I mean not to die at all) is to have me for your heir. I recommend you to... More
- A true voluptuary will never abandon his mind to the grossness of reality. It is by exalting the... More
- Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much—and pleases me so... More
- The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other... More
- I swims in the Tagus all across at once, and I rides on an ass or a mule, and swears Portuguese,... More
- It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense,... More
- It will be difficult for me not to make sport for the Philistines by pulling down a house or two,... More
- If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing... More
- It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond... More
- I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone. More
- But I hate things all fiction ... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most... More
- All are inclined to believe what they covet, from a lottery- ticket up to a passport to Paradise. More
- This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but... More
- I have always laid it down as a maxim—and found it justified by experience—that a man and a... More
- A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the... More
- But hatred is a much more delightful passion & never cloys; it will make us all happy for the... More
- I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like... More
- Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to enquire—in the midst of myriads... More
- Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then... More
- I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions. More
- Such writing is a sort of mental masturbation.... I don’t mean that he is indecent but... More
- The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of... More
- I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes—and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any... More
- My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or... More
- I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me—I have been more ravished... More
- We are all selfish & I no more trust myself than others with a good motive. More
- I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable... More
- A woman who ... gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover—but will sooner or later find a... More
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