George Gordon Byron /Lord Byron/ quotes Born: 01/22/1788 Died: 04/19/1824 Country: united_kingdom

• A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know. (George Gordon Byron) [celebrity]
• A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress. (George Gordon Byron) [poetry]
• A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends. (George Gordon Byron)
• A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands. (George Gordon Byron)
• Absence - that common cure of love. (George Gordon Byron) [love]
• Adversity is the first path to truth. (George Gordon Byron) [path/truth]
• All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin. (George Gordon Byron) [joy/share/happiness]
• Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. (George Gordon Byron)
• America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people. (George Gordon Byron) [america/rudeness/people]
• And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description. (George Gordon Byron) [agreeable/revolution]
• As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others. (George Gordon Byron) [feeling/pleasure/nature]
• Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray. (George Gordon Byron) [life/evening]
• Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge. (George Gordon Byron) [life/night]
• 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. (George Gordon Byron) [face/truth]
• Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep. (George Gordon Byron) [death/thing/men/life]
• 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 Gordon Byron) [day/opinion/life/virtue]
• Fame is the thirst of youth. (George Gordon Byron) [fame/youth]
• Folly loves the martyrdom of fame. (George Gordon Byron) [martyrdom/fame]
• Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. (George Gordon Byron) [satire]
• For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour. (George Gordon Byron) [life]
• For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear. (George Gordon Byron) [past/misfortune]
• For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction. (George Gordon Byron) [truth/strange/stranger]
• Friendship is Love without his wings! (George Gordon Byron) [love/wings]
• Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship. (George Gordon Byron) [love/love]
• He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly? (George Gordon Byron)
• He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below. (George Gordon Byron) [mankind/look]
• Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment. (George Gordon Byron)
• I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness. (George Gordon Byron) [happiness]
• I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting. (George Gordon Byron)
• I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains. (George Gordon Byron) [help/thinking/villains]
• I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual. (George Gordon Byron)

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