| 349 Famous Quotes by Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
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“And history with all her volumes vast,
Hath but one page.”
History Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto IV, st. 108)
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“Born in the garret, in the kitchen bred.”
Ancestry Quotes Source: A Sketch (l. 1)
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“I live not in myself, but I become
Portion of that around me; and to me
High mountains are a feeling, but the hum
Of human cities torture.”
Cities Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto III, st. 72)
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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.”
Fishing Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto XIII, st. 106)
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“Modesty is the only sure bait when you are fishing for praise.”
Fishing Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto XIII, st. 106)
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“As the lone Angler, patient man,
At Mewry-Water, or the Banne,
Leaves off, against his placid wish,
Impaling worms to torture fish.”
Fishing Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto XIII, st. 106)
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“He left a Corsair's name to other times,
Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes.”
Names Quotes Source: The Corsair (canto III, st. 24)
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“I have a passion for the name of "Mary,"
For once it was a magic sound to me,
And still it half calls up the realms of fairy,
Where I beheld what never was to be.”
Names Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto V, st. 4)
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“On, Amos Cottle!--Phoebus! what a name!”
Names Quotes Source: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (l. 399)
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“Rough Johnson, the great moralist.”
Morality Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto XIII, st. 7)
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“There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and
true religion.”
Religion Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto II, st. 34)
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“The careful pilot of my proper woe.”
Help Quotes Source: Epistle to Augustana (no. 3, st. 3)
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“In the desert a fountain is springing,
In the wide waste there still is a tree,
And a bird in the solitude singing,
Which speaks to my spirit of thee.”
Sympathy Quotes Source: Stanzas to Augusta
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“A mere court butterfly,
That flutters in the pageant of a monarch.”
Courtiers Quotes Source: Sardanapalus (act V, sc. 1)
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“Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.”
Power Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto II, st. 2)
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“A man must serve his time to every trade
Save censure--critics all are ready made.
Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote,
With just enough of learning to misquote;
A mind well skill'd to find or forge a fault;
A turn for punning, call it Attic salt;
To Jeffrey go, be silent and discreet,
His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet;
Fear not to lie, 'twill seem a lucky hit;
Shrink not from blasphemy, 'twill pass for wit;
Care not for feeling--pass your proper jest,
And stand a critic, hated yet caress'd.”
Criticism Quotes Source: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (l. 63)
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“As soon
Seek roses in December--ice in June,
Hope, constancy in wind, or corn in chaff;
Believe a woman or an epitaph,
Or any other thing that's false, before
You trust in critics.”
Criticism Quotes Source: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (l. 75)
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“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar.”
Pleasure Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto IV, st. 178)
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“When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall;
And when Rome falls--the World.”
Rome Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto IV, st. 145)
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“O Rome! my country! city of the soul!”
Rome Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto IV, st. 78)
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“Ancient of days! august Athena! where,
Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul?
Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were;
First in the race that led to glory's goal,
They won, and pass'd away--Is this the whole?”
Athens Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto II, st. 2)
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“Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle
Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime,
Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle,
Now melt into sorrow, now madded to crime?”
Greece Quotes Source: The Bride of Abydos (canto I)
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“Ancient of days! august Athena! where,
Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul?
Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were;
First in the race that led to glory's goal,
They won, and pass'd away--Is this the whole?”
Greece Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto II, st. 2)
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“Fair Greece! and relic of departed worth!
Immortal, though no more; though fallen great!”
Greece Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto II, st. 73)
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“The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece!
Where burning Sappho loved and sung.
Where grew the arts of war and peace,--
Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung!
Eternal summer gilds them yet,
But all, except their sun, is set.”
Greece Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto III, st. 86)
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Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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