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More Quotes by Lord Byron
Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
...And these vicissitudes come best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age, People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth, And wonder Providence is not more sage. Adversity is the first path to truth: He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Has won experience which is deem'd so weighty.
Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.
A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover - but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
Think not I am what I appear.
What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
Happiness was born a twin.
For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
But 'why then publish?' There are no rewards Of fame or profit when the world grows weary. I ask in turn why do you play at cards? Why drink? Why read? To make some hour less dreary. It occupies me to turn back regards On what I've seen or pondered, sad or cheery, And what I write I cast upon the stream To swim or sink. I have had at least my dream.
