George Gordon Byron Quotes
George Gordon Byron Quotes
In secret we met -
In silence I grieve,
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive.
If I should meet thee
After long years,
How should I greet thee? -
With silence and tears
1997 If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad.
3898 My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
3603 I will keep no further journal of that same hesternal torch‐light ; and, to prevent me from returning, like a dog, to the vomit of memory, I tear out the remaining leaves of this volume...
3684 But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling, like dew, upon a thought produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think.
2926 The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain.
2280 Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
4691 Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction: if it could be told,
How much would novels gain by the exchange!
How differently the world would men behold!
2210 For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
4983 Wedded she some years, and to a man
Of fifty, and such husbands are in plenty;
And yet, I think, instead of such a ONE
'Twere better to have TWO of five and twenty...
1311 What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear
That which disfigures it.
2187 All who joy would win
Must share it - Happiness was born a twin.
2824 Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
1305 They never fail who die in a great cause.
2121 We are all the fools of time and terror: Days
Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live,
Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.
4132 But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
4514 There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on 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
2061 She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes...
1338 I live not in myself, but I become
Portion of that around me: and to me
High mountains are a feeling, but the hum
of human cities torture.
2994 When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.
3774 for the night
Hath been to me a more familiar face
Than that of man, and in her starry shade
Of dim and solitary loveliness
I learned the language of another world.
3839 There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
2350 A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover - but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
4221 The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space.
1844 Gwynned lies two days westwards; still further south, the weregeld calls. Mayhap with All-Father Woden's favour, my deeds may yet inspire the skalds.
2762 I awoke one morning to find myself famous.
4548 A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them.
2000 If I could always read I should never feel the want of company.
3230 The light of love, the purity of grace,
The mind, the Music breathing from her face,
The heart whose softness harmonised the whole -
And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!
1302 Friendship is love without wings.
2104 let joy be unconfined...
3999 A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
4629 I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
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