| 349 Famous Quotes by Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
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“Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the
surface and their toughness in the middle.”
Bravery Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto VIII, st. 106)
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“I am not now
That which I have been.”
Change Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto IV, st. 185)
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“And one by one in turn, some grand mistake
Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.”
Change Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto V, st. 21)
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“A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.”
Change Quotes Source: Dream (st. 3)
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“Shrine of the mighty! can it be,
That this is all remains of thee?”
Change Quotes Source: Giaour (l. 106)
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“How chang'd since last her speaking eye
Glanc'd gladness round the glitt'ring room,
Where high-born men were proud to wait--
Where Beauty watched to imitate.”
Change Quotes Source: Parisina (st. 10)
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“Better to sink beneath the shock
Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!”
Choice Quotes Source: The Giaour (l. 969)
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“Sleep hath its own world,
A boundary between the things misnamed
Death and existence: Sleep hath its own world,
And a wide realm of wild reality,
And dreams in their development have breath,
And tears and tortures, and the touch of joy.”
Sleep Quotes Source: The Dream (st. 1)
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“Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!”
Youth Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto II, st. 23)
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“Her years
Were ripe, they might make six-and-twenty springs;
But there are forms which Time to touch forbears.
And turns aside his scythe to vulgar things.”
Youth Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto V, st. 98)
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“And both were young, and one was beautiful.”
Youth Quotes Source: The Dream (st. 2)
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“A would-be satirist, a hired buffoon,
A monthly scribbler of some low lampoon,
Condemn'd to drudge, the meanest of the mean,
And furbish falsehoods for a magazine.”
Journalism Quotes Source: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (l. 975)
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“Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore,
All ashes to the taste.”
Apples Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto III, st. 34)
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“O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations,
Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain,
I pray ye flog them upon all occasions,
It mends their morals, never mind the pain.”
Teaching Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto II, st. 1)
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“'Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue
By female lips and eyes--that is, I mean,
When both the teacher and the taught are young,
As was the case, at least, where I have been;
They smile so when one's right; and when one's wrong
They smile still more.”
Teaching Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto II, st. 164)
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“He ne'er presumed to make an error clearer;--
In short, there never was a better hearer.”
Hearing Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto XIV, st. 37)
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“Hark! to the hurried question of Despair
"Where is my child?"--An echo answers--
"Where?"”
Echo Quotes Source: The Bride of Abydos (canto II, st. 27)
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“A thirst for gold,
The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm
The meanest hearts.”
Gold Quotes Source: The Vision of Judgment (st. 43)
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“Sofas 'twas half a sin to sit upon,
So costly were they; carpets, every stitch
Of workmanship so rare, they make you wish
You could glide o'er them like a golden fish.”
Luxury Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto V, st. 65)
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“Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare,
And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.”
Mammon Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto I, st. 9)
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“How beauteous are rouleaus! how charming chests
Containing ingots, bags of dollars, coins
(Not of old victors, all whose heads and crests
Weigh not the thin ore where their visage shines,
But) of find unclipt gold, where dully rests
Some likeness, which the glittering cirque confines,
Of modern, reigning, sterling, stupid stamp;--
Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.”
Money Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto XII, st. 12)
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“Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.”
Age Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto II, st. 88)
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“What is the worst of woes that wait on age?
What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?
To view each love one blotted from life's page,
And be alone on earth as I am now.”
Age Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto II, st. 98)
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“He has grown aged in this world of woe,
In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life.
So that no wonder waits him.”
Age Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto III, st. 5)
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“. . . Years steal
Fire from the mind, as vigor from the limb;
And life's enchanted cut but sparkles near the brim.”
Age Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto III, st. 8)
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