Lord Byron

(508 votes)   The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(469 votes)   My attachment has neither the blindness of the beginning, nor the microscopic accuracy of the close of such liaisons.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(461 votes)   Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days -- whatever there may be for the dust -- the thirty-third year of an ill-spent life, which, after a lingering disease of many months sank into a lethargy, and expired, January 22d, 1821, A.D. leaving a successor inconsolable for the very loss which occasioned its existence.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(378 votes)   The Angels were all singing out of tune, and hoarse with having little else to do, excepting to wind up the sun and moon or curb a runaway young star or two.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(378 votes)   The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(374 votes)   What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(365 votes)   No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(357 votes)   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.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(349 votes)   We have progressively improved into a less spiritual species of tenderness -- but the seal is not yet fixed though the wax is preparing for the impression.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(346 votes)   So much alarmed that she is quite alarming, All Giggle, Blush, half Pertness, and half Pout.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(340 votes)   What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(304 votes)   Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(278 votes)   A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(277 votes)   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
1788-1824, British Poet

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(254 votes)   Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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