| 349 Famous Quotes by Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
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“Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure;
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.”
Hatred Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto XII, st. 6)
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“Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it,
For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.”
Jealousy Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto I, st. 65)
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“She walks the waters like a thing of life,
And seems to dare the elements to strife.”
Ships Quotes Source: The Corsair (canto I, st. 3)
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“She bears her down majestically near,
Speed on her prow, and terror in her tier.”
Ships Quotes Source: The Corsair (canto III, st. 15)
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“Besides, they always smell of bread and butter.”
Childhood Quotes Source: Beppo
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“A little curly-headed, good-for-nothing,
And mischief-making monkey from his birth.”
Childhood Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto I, st. 25)
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“Sorrow preys upon
Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it
From its sad visions of the other world
Than calling it at moments back to this.
The busy have no time for tears.”
Sorrow Quotes Source: The Two Foscari (act IV, sc. 1)
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“Exhausting thought,
And having wisdom with each studious year.”
Study Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto III, st. 107)
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“Sweet is revenge--especially to women.”
Revenge Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto I, st. 124)
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“A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!”
Wonders Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto II, st. 2)
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“If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to
himself . . . that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, he will
find out he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the
discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.”
Wonders Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto II, st. 2)
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“Of all tales 'tis the saddest--and more sad,
Because it makes us smile.”
Sadness Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto XIII, st. 9)
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“'Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep
From leaf to leaf; 'tis sweet to view on high
The rainbow, based on ocean, span the sky.”
Rainbows Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto I, st. 122)
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“"Darkly, deeply, beautifully blue,"
As some one somewhere sings about the sky.”
Sky Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto IV, st. 110)
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“And they were canopied by the blue sky,
So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful,
That God alone was to be seen in Heaven.”
Sky Quotes Source: The Dream (st. 4)
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“Till taught by pain,
Men really know not what good water's worth;
If you had been in Turkey or in Spain,
Or with a famish'd boat's-crew had your berth,
Or in the desert heard the camel's bell,
You'd wish yourself where Truth is--in a well.”
Water Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto II, st. 84)
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“Man, being reasonable, must get drunk;
The best of life is but intoxication:
Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk
The hopes of all men and of every nation;
Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk
Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion:
But to return,--Get very drunk; and when
You wake with headache, you shall see what then.”
Intemperance Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto II, st. 179)
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“Some hoisted out the boats, and there was one
That begged Pedrillo for an absolution
Who told him to be damn'd,--in his confusion.”
Shipwreck Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto II, st. 44)
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“Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell--
Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave,--
Then some leap'd overboard with fearful yell,
As eager to anticipate their grave.”
Shipwreck Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto II, st. 52)
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“Eternity forbids thee to forget.”
Eternity Quotes Source: Lara (canto I, st. 23)
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“And angling too, that solitary vice,
What Izaak Walton sings or says:
The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet
Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.”
Trout Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto XIII, st. 106)
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“There is a temple in ruins stands,
Fashion'd by long forgotten hands:
Two or three columns, and many a stone,
Marble and granite, with grass o'ergrown!”
Ruin Quotes Source: Siege of Corinth (st. 18)
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“Parting day
Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues
With a new colour as it gasps away,
The last still loveliest, till--'tis gone--and all is gray.”
Twilight Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto IV, st. 29)
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“'Twas twilight, and the sunless day went down
Over the waste of waters; like a veil,
Which, if withdrawn, would but disclose the frown
Of one whose hate is mask'd but to assail.”
Twilight Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto II, st. 49)
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Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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