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George Byron
Scottish
Poet
About the author
I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.
George Byron,
Scottish
Poet
#Nothing
#Intentions
Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
George Byron,
Scottish
Poet
#Nothing
#Merit
I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
George Byron,
Scottish
Poet
#Life
#Beauty
#Duty
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.
George Byron,
Scottish
Poet
#May
#Friends
#Enemies
#Self
#Lovers
#Jealousy
It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
George Byron,
Scottish
Poet
#Idea
#Pain
It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
George Byron,
Scottish
Poet
#Reason
#Man
#Sleep
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
George Byron,
Scottish
Poet
#Self
#Wisdom
#Fool
#Envy
#Certainty
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
George Byron,
Scottish
Poet
#Now
#Love
#Men
#Pleasure
#Leisure
#Hatred
#Haste
I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
George Byron,
Scottish
Poet
#Being
#Future
Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
George Byron,
Scottish
Poet
#Truth
#Opinions
For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?
George Byron,
Scottish
Poet
#Country
#Vote
Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
George Byron,
Scottish
Poet
#Life
#Day
#Virtue
#Opinion
#Superiority
#Reward
Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.
George Byron,
Scottish
Poet
#Right
#Country
#Chivalry
#Spain
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
George Byron,
Scottish
Poet
#Words
#Thought
#Dew
All farewells should be sudden, when forever.
George Byron,
Scottish
Poet
#Farewells
A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
George Byron,
Scottish
Poet
#Will
#May
#Man
#Woman
I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.
George Byron,
Scottish
Poet
#American
The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
George Byron,
Scottish
Poet
#Will
#Reading
Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
George Byron,
Scottish
Poet
#Money
Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.
George Byron,
Scottish
Poet
#Right
#Weapons
#Women
#Hate
#Sentiment
Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.
George Byron,
Scottish
Poet
#Husbands
#Daughters
#Wives
What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
George Byron,
Scottish
Poet
#Man
#Quiet
#Existence
#Waiting
#Travel
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
George Byron,
Scottish
Poet
#Love
#Man
#Society
#Deep
#Nature
#Pleasure
#Music
#Sea
#Lonely
Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
George Byron,
Scottish
Poet
#Nothing
#Man
#Laughter
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?
George Byron,
Scottish
Poet
#Life
#State
#Passion
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.
George Byron,
Scottish
Poet
#Wife
#Heart
#Power
#Fact
#Common sense
The best prophet of the future is the past.
George Byron,
Scottish
Poet
#Past
#Future
Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.
George Byron,
Scottish
Poet
#May
#Sincerity
Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.
George Byron,
Scottish
Poet
#Truth
#Religion
Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.
George Byron,
Scottish
Poet
#Will
#May
#Name
#Shakespeare
Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
George Byron,
Scottish
Poet
#Self
Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen.
George Byron,
Scottish
Poet