Lord Byron Quotes - Page 15

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• The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.

  Lord Byron

  Lying, People, Way

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2986, Delphi Classics

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• Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste.

  Lord Byron

  Disappointment, Sea, Apples

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 3, st. 34

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• And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.

  Lord Byron

  Laughter, Laughing, May

  Don Juan canto 4, st. 4 (1821)

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• There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.

  Lord Byron

  Doubt, Religion, Literature

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 2, st. 34

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• 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.

  Lord Byron

  Heart, Power, Common Sense

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• Sublime tobacco! which from east to west, Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest; Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides His hours, and rivals opium and his brides; Magnificent in Stamboul, but less grand, Though not less loved, in Wapping or the Strand: Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe, When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe; Like other charmers wooing the caress, More dazzlingly when daring in full dress; Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties Give me a cigar!

  Lord Byron

  Cheer, Giving, Sublime

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1029, Delphi Classics

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• 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!

  Lord Byron

  Men, Fiction, World

  LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.303

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• I depart, Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.

  Lord Byron

  Travel, Eye, Grieving

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.55, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone, which fades so fast, But the tender bloom of heart is gone, ere youth itself be past.

  Lord Byron

  Heart, Past, Gone

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.351, Delphi Classics

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• But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.

  Lord Byron

  Liars, Hate, Writing

  Letter to John Murray from Venice, April 2 1817, in L. A. Marchand (ed.) 'Byron's Letters and Journals' vol. 5 (1976)

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• Go let thy less than woman's hand Assume the distaff not the brand.

  Lord Byron

  Hands, Assuming, Contempt

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.789, Delphi Classics

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• Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem None rebels except subjects? The prince who Neglects or violates his trust is more A brigand than the robber-chief.

  Lord Byron

  Tyrants, Rebel, Neglect

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1436, Delphi Classics

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• Twas twilight, and the sunless day went down Over the waste of waters; like a veil, Which, if withdrawn, would but disclose the frown Of one whose hate is mask'd but to assail.

  Lord Byron

  Hate, Twilight, Water

  George Gordon Byron, “Don Juan: Canto The Second”

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• Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,- Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.

  Lord Byron

  Truth, Fire, Names

  George Gordon Byron, “English Bards And Scotch Reviewers: A Satire”

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• And Mocha's berry, from Arabia pure, In small fine china cups, came in at last. Gold cups of filigree, made to secure the hand from burning, underneath them place. Cloves, cinnamon and saffron, too, were boiled Up with the coffee, which, I think, they spoiled.

  Lord Byron

  Coffee, Food, Thinking

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• A sleep without dreams, after a rough day of toil, is what we covet most; and yet
  How clay shrinks back from more quiescent clay!
  The very Suicide that pays his debt at once without installments
  (an old way of paying debts, which creditors regret)
  Lets out impatiently his rushing breath, less from disgust of life than dread of death.

  Lord Byron

  Suicide, Dream, Regret

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.324, Simon and Schuster

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• I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.

  Lord Byron

  Long, Library, Lamps

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• A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded.

  Lord Byron

  Baby, Rose, Sweetest

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 15, st. 43

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• Not to admire, is all the art I know To make men happy, or to keep them so. Thus Horace wrote we all know long ago; And thus Pope quotes the precept to re-teach From his translation; but had none admired, Would Pope have sung, or Horace been inspired?

  Lord Byron

  Art, Men, Long Ago

  Lord Byron (2017). “Don Juan”, p.263, BookRix

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• In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee

  Lord Byron

  Sympathy, Bird, Tree

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.496, Delphi Classics

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• Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more! though fallen, great!

  Lord Byron

  Departed, Fallen, Immortal

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 2, st. 73

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• Farewell! if ever fondest prayer For other's weal avail'd on high, Mine will not all be lost in air, But waft thy name beyond the sky.

  Lord Byron

  Prayer, Farewell, Air

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.381, Delphi Classics

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• He who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Years, Waiting

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.82, Cambridge University Press

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• Next to dressing for a rout or ball, undressing is a woe.

  Lord Byron

  Fashion, Clothes, Balls

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.364, Simon and Schuster

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• The English winter - ending in July to recommence in August

  Lord Byron

  Summer, Senior, Winter

  Don Juan canto 13, st. 42 (1823)

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