| 349 Famous Quotes by Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
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“Put himself upon his good behavior.”
Proverbial phrases Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto V, st. 47)
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“By all that's good and glorious.”
Proverbial phrases Quotes Source: Sardanapalus (act I, sc. 2)
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“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.”
Adversity Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto XII, st. 50)
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“The languages, especially the dead,
The sciences, and most of all the abstruse,
The arts, at least all such as could be said
To be the most remote from common use,
In all these he was much and deeply read.”
Learning Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto I, st. 40)
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“Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded.
That all the Apostles would have done as they did.”
Christianity Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto I, st. 83)
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“His speech was a fine sample, on the whole,
Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call "rigmarole."”
Speech Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto I, st. 174)
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“The law of heaven and earth is life for life.”
Law Quotes Source: The Curse of Minerva (st. 15)
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“The tree of knowledge is not that of life.”
Knowledge Quotes Source: Manfred (act I, sc. 1)
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“Knowledge is not happiness, and science
But an exchange of ignorance for that
Which is another kind of ignorance.”
Knowledge Quotes Source: Manfred (act II, sc. 4)
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“Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life!
The evening beam that smiles the clouds away,
And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!”
Wives Quotes Source: The Bride of Abydos (canto II, st. 20)
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“Her eye (I'm very fond of handsome eyes)
Was large and dark, suppressing half its fire
Until she spoke, then through its soft disguise
Flash'd an expression more of pride than ire,
And love than either; and there would arise,
A something in them which was not desire,
But would have been, perhaps, but for the soul,
Which struggled through and chansten'd down the whole.”
Eyes Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto I, st. 60)
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“With eyes that look'd into the very soul--
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Bright--and as black and burning as coal.”
Eyes Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto IV, st. 94)
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“For florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme,
Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.”
Poetry Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto I, st. 3)
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“The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse.”
Poetry Quotes Source: Corsair (preface)
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“Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes;
But no too humbly, or she will despise
Thee and thy suit, though told in moving tropes:
Disguise even tenderness if thou art wise.”
Wooing Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto II, st. 34)
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“Not much he kens, I ween, of woman's breast,
Who thinks that wanton thing is won by sighs.”
Wooing Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto II, st. 34)
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“'Tis an old lesson; time approves it true,
And those who know it best, deplore it most;
When all is won that all desire to woo,
The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.”
Wooing Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto II, st. 35)
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“And whispering, "I will ne'er consent," consented.”
Wooing Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto I, st. 117)
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“There is a tide in the affairs of women
Which, taken at the flood, leads--God knows where.”
Wooing Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto VI, st. 2)
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“Some are soon bagg'd but some reject three dozen.
'Tis fine to see them scattering refusals
And wild dismay, o'er every angry cousin
(Friends of the party) who begin accusals,
Such as--"Unless Miss (Blank) meant to have chosen
Poor Frederick, why did she accord perusals
To his billets? Why waltz with him? Why, I pray,
Look yes least night, and yet say No to-day?"”
Wooing Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto XII, st. 34)
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“'Tis enough--
Who listens once will listen twice;
Her heart be sure is not of ice,
And one refusal no rebuff.”
Wooing Quotes Source: Mazeppa (st. 6)
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“I die,--but first I have possess'd,
And come what may, I have been bless'd.”
Possession Quotes Source: The Giaour (l. 1,114)
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“Friendship is Love without his wings!”
Friendship Quotes Source: L' Amitie est l' Amour sans Ailes (st. 1)
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“In friendship I early was taught to believe;
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I have found that a friend may profess, yet deceive.”
Friendship Quotes Source: Lines addressed to the Rev. J.T. Becher (st. 7)
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“But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws
So much, as when we call our old debts in
At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil,
And find a deuced balance with the devil.”
Conscience Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto I, st. 167)
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Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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