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He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly? — Lord Byron

Ada! sole daughter of my house and heart. — Lord Byron

Fare thee well, and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well. — Lord Byron

Sleep hath its own world, and the wide realm of wild reality. — Lord Byron

Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste. — Lord Byron

There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them. — Lord Byron

I only know we loved in vain; I only feel-farewell! farewell! — Lord Byron

They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness. — Lord Byron

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them. — Lord Byron

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce. — Lord Byron

Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die. — Lord Byron

A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense. — Lord Byron

Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never — Lord Byron

Yet smelt roast meat, beheld a huge fire shine, And cooks in motion with their clean arms bared. — Lord Byron

If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die. — Lord Byron

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little. — Lord Byron

Italia! O Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty. — Lord Byron

Know ye not who would be free themselves must strike the blow? by their right arms the conquest must be wrought? — Lord Byron

I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day ... — Lord Byron

The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice. — Lord Byron

The sight of blood to crowds begets the thirst of more, As the first wine-cup leads to the long revel. — Lord Byron

The truly brave are soft of heart and eyes, and feel for what their duty bids them do. — Lord Byron

Tyranny is for the worst of treasons. — Lord Byron

What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman. — Lord Byron

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

My altars are the mountains and the ocean. — Lord Byron

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people. — Lord Byron

Religion-freedom-vengeance-what you will, A word's enough to raise mankind to kill. — Lord Byron

Constancy ... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal. — Lord Byron

Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner. — Lord Byron

Prolonged endurance tames the bold. — Lord Byron

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep. — Lord Byron

I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war. — Lord Byron

A pretty woman is a welcome guest. — Lord Byron

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

Forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and museums — Zbigniew Herbert

Smiles form the channels of a future tear. — Lord Byron

Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase, I told you so. — Lord Byron

Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels. — Lord Byron

Knowledge is not happiness, and science
But an exchange of ignorance for that
Which is another kind of ignorance. — Lord Byron

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting. — Lord Byron

It is usually easier to see what lies on the surface of a person rather than taking the time and attention to delve deeper. ~ Lord John "Jack" Byron — Tracy Anne Warren

The devil was the first democrat — Lord Byron

For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable. — Lord Byron

Oh, Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land! — Lord Byron

A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded. — Lord Byron

Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded. That all the Apostles would have done as they did. — Lord Byron

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five? — Lord Byron

Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire. — Lord Byron

Whatsoever thy birth, thou were a beautiful thought and softly bodied forth. — Lord Byron

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all. — Lord Byron

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

Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae! — Lord Byron

I die but first I have possessed, And come what may, I have been blessed. — Lord Byron

What exile from himself can flee? To zones, though more and more remote, Still, still pursues, where'er I be, The blight of life
the demon Thought. — Lord Byron

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual. — Lord Byron

Have not all past human beings parted, And must not all the present, one day part? — Lord Byron

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy. — Lord Byron

Where there is mystery, it is generally supposed there must be evil. — George Gordon Byron

Bologna is celebrated for producing popes, painters, and sausage. — Lord Byron

History - the devil's scripture — Lord Byron

Think not I am what I appear. — Lord Byron

Glory, like the phoenix 'midst her fires, Exhales her odours, blazes, and expires. — Lord Byron

O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour. — Lord Byron

Alas! how deeply painful is all payment! — Lord Byron

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame. — Lord Byron

Now what I love in women is, they won't Or can't do otherwise than lie, but do it. So well, the very truth seems falsehood to it. — Lord Byron

Damn description, it is always disgusting. — Lord Byron

They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money. — Lord Byron

I am not now
That which I have been. — Lord Byron

The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go. — Lord Byron

Go let thy less than woman's hand Assume the distaff not the brand. — Lord Byron

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it. — Lord Byron

Exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year. — Lord Byron

I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people - being always excited. — Lord Byron

To chase the glowing hours with flying feet. — Lord Byron

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains. — Lord Byron

So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice. — Lord Byron

Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep From leaf to leaf. — Lord Byron

None are so desolate but something dear, Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd A thought, and claims the homage of a tear. — Lord Byron

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored. — Lord Byron

The simple Wordsworth ... / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose. — Lord Byron

The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed. — Lord Byron

There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that trusted to his truth — Lord Byron

A sort of hostile transaction, very necessary to keep the world going, but by no means a sinecure to the parties concerned. — Lord Byron

Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket. — Lord Byron

A change came o'er the spirit of my dream. — Lord Byron

The dew of compassion is a tear. — Lord Byron

Eat, drink and love ... the rest is not worth a nickel — Lord Byron

Accursed be the city where the laws would stifle nature's! — Lord Byron

Once more upon the waters! yet once more!
And the waves bound beneath me as a steed
That knows his rider. — Lord Byron

Muse of the many twinkling feet, whose charms are now extending up from legs to arms. — Lord Byron

VALENTINE: Are you talking about Lord Byron, the poet?
BERNARD: No, you fucking idiot, we're talking about Lord Byron, the chartered accountant. — Tom Stoppard

Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world. — Lord Byron

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it. — Lord Byron

And hold up to the sun my little taper. — Lord Byron

I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts. — Lord Byron

Eternity forbids thee to forget. — Lord Byron

This is to be along; this, this is solitude! — Lord Byron

Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen. — Lord Byron