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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.

By Lord Byron

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

By Lord Byron

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

By Lord Byron

Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.

By Lord Byron

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

By Lord Byron

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

By Lord Byron

Indigestion is - that inward fate which makes all Styx through one small liver flow

By Lord Byron

In the desert a fountain is springing,
In the wide waste there still is a tree,
And a bird in the solitude singing,
Which speaks to my spirit of thee.

By Lord Byron

In solitude, where we are least alone.

By Lord Byron

In general I do not draw well with literary men / not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.

By Lord Byron

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.

By Lord Byron

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

By Lord Byron

If this be true, indeed, / Some Christians have a comfortable creed.

By Lord Byron

If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.

By Lord Byron

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

By Lord Byron

I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.

By Lord Byron

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

By Lord Byron

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.

By Lord Byron

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

By Lord Byron

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

By Lord Byron

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

By Lord Byron

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.

By Lord Byron

How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm I thank thee, night for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this.

By Lord Byron

How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm! I thank thee, night! for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate; and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this.

By Lord Byron

Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

By Lord Byron

He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?

By Lord Byron

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

By Lord Byron

He said / Little, but to the purpose.

By Lord Byron

Hatred is the madness of the heart.

By Lord Byron

Goodnight

By Lord Byron