Lord Byron Quotes - Page 11

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• Curiosity kills itself; and love is only curiosity, as is proved by its end.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Curiosity, Ends

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• There is pleasure in the pathless woods.

  Lord Byron

  Nature, Farewell, Woods

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 178

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• It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

  Lord Byron

  Earthquakes, Imagination, Poetry

  Letter to Annabella Milbanke, 29 November 1813, in L. A. Marchand (ed.) 'Byron's Letters and Journals' vol. 3 (1974)

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• And the commencement of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

  Lord Byron

  Literature, Sin, Atonement

  "Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron" (Illustrated),

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• The lapse of ages changes all things - time - language - the earth - the bounds of the sea - the stars of the sky, and everything 'about, around, and underneath' man, except man himself, who has always been and always will be, an unlucky rascal. The infinite variety of lives conduct but to death, and the infinity of wishes lead but to disappointment. All the discoveries which have yet been made have multiplied little but existence.

  Lord Byron

  Stars, Disappointment, Discovery

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• The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole — And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!

  Lord Byron

  Eye, Heart, Light

  'The Bride of Abydos' (1813) canto 1, st. 6

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• By headless Charles see heartless Henry lies.

  Lord Byron

  Lying, Heartless, Headless

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.468, Delphi Classics

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• When Newton saw an apple fall, he found In that slight startle from his contemplation- 'Tis said (for I'll not answer above ground For any sage's creed or calculation)- A mode of proving that the earth turn'd round In a most natural whirl, called 'gravitation'; And this is the sole mortal who could grapple, Since Adam, with a fall, or with an apple.

  Lord Byron

  Fall, Science, Apples

  George Gordon Byron, “Don Juan: Canto The Tenth”

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• I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.

  Lord Byron

  Sensual, Acting, Actors

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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 God must strive.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Alone Man, Vanity

  Lord Byron (1854). “Childe Harold's pilgrimage”, p.188

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• Tis said that persons living on annuities Are longer lived than others.

  Lord Byron

  Said, Living On, Persons

  LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.52

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• Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe
  When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe;...
  Yet thy true lovers more admire by far
  Thy naked beauties - give me a cigar!

  Lord Byron

  Giving, Smoking, Naked

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• The premises are so delightfully extensive, that two people might live together without ever seeing, hearing or meeting.

  Lord Byron

  Home, Two, People

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• When people say, "I've told you fifty times," They mean to scold, and very often do; When poets say, "I've written fifty rhymes," They make you dread that they'll recite them too; In gangs of fifty, thieves commit their crimes; At fifty love for love is rare, 't is true, but then, no doubt, it equally as true is, a good deal may be bought for fifty Louis.

  Lord Byron

  Mean, Love Is, People

  "Don Juan". Poem by Lord Byron, 1818-1824.

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• All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most.

  Lord Byron

  Sleep, Silence, Heaven

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.76, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.

  Lord Byron

  People, Giving, Mind

  'The Dream' (1816) st. 1

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• On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet

  Lord Byron

  Life, Success, Dance

  George Gordon Byron, “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt. Canto Iii.”

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• This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.

  Lord Byron

  Wings, Quiet, Distraction

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.75, Sheba Blake Publishing

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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.

  Lord Byron

  Truth, War, Adversity

  Lord Byron (2009). “Don Juan”, p.520, The Floating Press

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• Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

  Lord Byron

  Song, Sarcasm, Fool

  'English Bards and Scotch Reviewers' (1809) l. 5

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• Whatsoever thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought, and softly bodied forth.

  Lord Byron

  Beautiful, Ideas, Birth

  "Childe Harold's pilgrimage".

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• They never fail who die in a great cause.

  Lord Byron

  Death, Failure, Sacrifice

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1218, Delphi Classics

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• Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Laughing, Feelings

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.292, Delphi Classics

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• But 'why then publish?' There are no rewards Of fame or profit when the world grows weary. I ask in turn why do you play at cards? Why drink? Why read? To make some hour less dreary. It occupies me to turn back regards On what I've seen or pondered, sad or cheery, And what I write I cast upon the stream To swim or sink. I have had at least my dream.

  Lord Byron

  Dream, Writing, Play

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.420, Xist Publishing

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• A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a fools-cap crown On a fool's head - and there is London Town.

  Lord Byron

  Dirty, Eye, Sight

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