| 349 Famous Quotes by Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
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“I have not loved the world, not the world me;
I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd
To its idolatries a patient knee.”
World Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto III, st. 113)
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“I stood
Among them, but not of them: in a shroud
Of thoughts which were not their thoughts.”
Thought Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto III, st. 113)
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“Whatsoe'er thy birth,
Thou wert a beautiful thought and softly bodied forth.”
Thought Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto IV, st. 115)
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“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.”
Thought Quotes Source: Childe Harold--To Inez (canto I, st. 84, l. 6)
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“The power of Thought,--the magic of the Mind!”
Thought Quotes Source: Corsair (canto I, st. 8)
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“Ovid's a rake, as half his verses show him,
Anacreon's morals are a still worse sample,
Catullus scarcely has a decent poem,
I don't think Sappho's Ode a good example,
Although Longinus tells us there is no hymn
Where the sublime soars forth on wings more ample;
But Virgil's songs are pure, except that horrid one
Being with "Formosum Pastor Corydon."”
Poets Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto I, st. 42)
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“But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling, like dew, upon a thought produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think.”
Authorship Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto III, st. 88)
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“But every fool describes, in these bright days,
His wondrous journey to some foreign court,
And spawns his quarto, and demands your praise,--
Death to his publisher, to him 'tis sport.”
Authorship Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto V, st. 52)
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“And hold up to the sun my little taper.”
Authorship Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto XII, st. 21)
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“Dear authors! suit your topics to your strength,
And ponder well your subject, and its length;
Nor lift your lad, before you're quite aware
What weight your shoulders will, or will not, bear.”
Authorship Quotes Source: Hints from Horace (l. 59)
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“Kill a man's family, and he may brook it,
But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.”
Thieving Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto X, st. 79)
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“Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay,
Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme,
Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.”
Crime Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto I, st. 3)
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“Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.”
Folly Quotes Source: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (l. 6)
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“Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame.”
Folly Quotes Source: Monody on the Death of the Rt. Hon. R.B. Sheridan (l. 68)
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“But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men,
To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess,
And roam along, the world's tired denizen,
With none who bless us, none whom we can bless.”
Solitude Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto II, st. 26)
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“This is to be along; this, this is solitude!”
Solitude Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto II, st. 26)
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“Among them, but not of them.”
Solitude Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto III, st. 113)
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“In solitude, when we are least alone.”
Solitude Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto III, st. 90)
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“'Tis solitude should teach us how to die;
It hath no flatterers; vanity can give
No hollow aid; alone--man with his God must strive.”
Solitude Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto IV, st. 33)
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“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.”
Solitude Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto IV, st. 33)
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“'Twas blow for blow, disputing inch by inch,
For one would not retreat, nor t'other flinch.”
Argument Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto VIII, st. 77)
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“When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter."
And proved it--'t was no matter what he said.”
Argument Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto XI, st. 1), an allusion to a dissertation by Berkeley on Mind and Matter found in no
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“I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with
comprehension.”
Argument Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto XI, st. 1), an allusion to a dissertation by Berkeley on Mind and Matter found in no
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“The light of love, the purity of grace,
The mind, the Music breathing from her face,
The heart whose softness harmonized the whole,
And, oh! the eye was in itself a Soul!”
Beauty Quotes Source: Bride of Abydos (canto I, st. 6)
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“Who doth not feel, until his failing sight
Faints into dimness with its own delight,
His changing cheek, his sinking heart confess,
The might--the majesty of Loveliness?”
Beauty Quotes Source: Bride of Abydos (canto I, st. 6)
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Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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