More Quotes by Lord Byron
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.
Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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.
I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
There are some feelings time cannot benumb, Nor torture shake.
On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet.
When people say, "I've told you fifty times," They mean to scold, and very often do; When poets say, "I've written fifty rhymes," They make you dread that they'll recite them too; In gangs of fifty, thieves commit their crimes; At fifty love for love is rare, 't is true, but then, no doubt, it equally as true is, a good deal may be bought for fifty Louis.
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!
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
