More Quotes by Lord Byron
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.
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
The devil was the first democrat
What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
...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.
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.
A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
Friendship is Love without his wings!
This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.
