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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.
By Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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?
By Lord (George Gordon) Byron
The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.
By Lord (George Gordon) 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 (George Gordon) Byron
All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage; The future states of both are left to faith, For authors fear description might disparage The worlds to come of both. . . .
By Lord (George Gordon) Byron
Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.
By Lord (George Gordon) Byron
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
By Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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 (George Gordon) Byron
Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
By Lord (George Gordon) Byron
So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart.
By Lord (George Gordon) Byron
The way to be immortal (I mean not to die at all) is to have me for your heir. I recommend you to put me in your will and you will see that (as long as I live at least) you will never even catch cold.
By Lord (George Gordon) Byron
It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a grand peut-tre --but still it is a grand one. Everybody clings to it --the stupidest, and dullest, and wickedest of human bipeds is still persuaded that he is immortal.
By Lord (George Gordon) Byron
What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.
By Lord (George Gordon) Byron
If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself...that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, he will find out he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.
By Lord (George Gordon) Byron
So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.
By Lord (George Gordon) Byron
I have always laid it down as a maxim --and found it justified by experience --that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex --but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.
By Lord (George Gordon) Byron
The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.
By Lord (George Gordon) Byron
Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter but do not admit the excuses except in courtesy, as when a man treads on your toes and begs your pardon -- the pardon is granted, but the joint aches, especially if there is a corn upon it.
By Lord (George Gordon) Byron
Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, traveler, and piss.
By Lord (George Gordon) Byron
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
By Lord (George Gordon) Byron
I stood among them, but not of them; in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
By Lord (George Gordon) Byron
For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'd; And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still!
By Lord (George Gordon) Byron
For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.
By Lord (George Gordon) Byron
I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.
By Lord (George Gordon) Byron
Oh! too convincing -- dangerously dear -- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!
By Lord (George Gordon) Byron
The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
By Lord (George Gordon) Byron