George Byron Quotes
"Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment."
- George Byron
(Related: Merit, Nothing)
"I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty."
- George Byron
(Related: 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
(Related: Enemies, Friends, Jealousy, Lovers, May, Self)
"It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one."
- George Byron
(Related: 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
(Related: Man, Reason, 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
(Related: Wisdom, Certainty, Envy, Fool, Self)
"Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure."
- George Byron
(Related: Love, Men, Haste, Hatred, Leisure, Now, Pleasure)
"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
(Related: Being, Future)
"Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?"
- George Byron
(Related: Truth, Opinions)
"For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?"
- George Byron
(Related: 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
(Related: Life, Superiority, Virtue, Day, Opinion, Reward)
"Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country."
- George Byron
(Related: Chivalry, Country, Right, 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
(Related: Thought, Dew, Words)
"All farewells should be sudden, when forever."
- George Byron
(Related: Farewells)
"A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant."
- George Byron
(Related: Man, May, Will, Woman)
"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor."
- George Byron
(Related: American)
"The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat."
- George Byron
(Related: Reading, Will)
"Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp."
- George Byron
(Related: 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
(Related: Women, Hate, Right, Sentiment, Weapons)
"Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler."
- George Byron
(Related: Daughters, Husbands, 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
(Related: Travel, Existence, Man, Quiet, Waiting)
"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
(Related: Love, Music, Nature, Society, Deep, Lonely, Man, Pleasure, Sea)
"Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce."
- George Byron
(Related: Laughter, Man, Nothing)
"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
(Related: Life, Passion, State)
"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
(Related: Power, Wife, Heart, Common sense, Fact)
"The best prophet of the future is the past."
- George Byron
(Related: Future, Past)
"Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile."
- George Byron
(Related: May, Sincerity)
"Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion."
- George Byron
(Related: Religion, Truth)
"Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down."
- George Byron
(Related: May, Name, Shakespeare, Will)
"Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it."
- George Byron
(Related: Self)
"Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen."
- George Byron