Lord Byron Quotes - Page 12

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• So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry.

  Lord Byron

  Regret, Eye, Kissing

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.792, Delphi Classics

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• Happiness was born a twin.

  Lord Byron

  Inspirational, Happiness, Twins

  Lord Byron (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.245, Routledge

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• Land of lost gods and godlike men.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Land, Losing

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.75, Cambridge University Press

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• There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men. A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell. But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell!

  Lord Byron

  Eye, Heart, Men

  Lord Byron (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.347, Routledge

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• Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way; - all this comes of Authorship.

  Lord Byron

  Writing, Ears, Way

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• Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.

  Lord Byron

  Ocean, Men, Light Waves

  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage canto 4, st. 179 (1818)

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• He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.

  Lord Byron

  People, Ears, Embarrassment

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• A material resurrection seems strange and even absurd except for purposes of punishment, and all punishment which is to revenge rather than correct must be morally wrong, and when the World is at an end, what moral or warning purpose can eternal tortures answer?

  Lord Byron

  Revenge, Punishment, Atheism

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2725, Delphi Classics

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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.

  Lord Byron

  Demon, Blight, Exile

  Lord Byron (1854). “Childe Harold's pilgrimage”, p.57

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• What is Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset; And mortals may be happy to resemble The Gods but in decay.

  Lord Byron

  Death, Sunset, Decay

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1317, Delphi Classics

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• Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.502, Xist Publishing

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• [My advice] will one day be found
  With other relics of 'a former world,'
  When this world shall be former, underground,
  Thrown topsy-turvy, twisted, crisped, and curled,
  Baked, fried or burnt, turned inside-out, or drowned,
  Like all the worlds before, which have been hurled
  First out of, and then back again to Chaos,
  The Superstratum which will overlay us.

  Lord Byron

  Change, Science, Advice

  LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.212

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• Despair and Genius are too oft connected

  Lord Byron

  Despair, Genius, Connected

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1080, Delphi Classics

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• I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

  Lord Byron

  Political, Consistency, Politics

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.3005, Delphi Classics

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• Ada! sole daughter of my house and heart.

  Lord Byron

  Daughter, Heart, House

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.81, Cambridge University Press

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• Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Small Changes, People

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• That prose is a verse, and verse is a prose; convincing all, by demonstrating plain – poetic souls delight in prose insane

  Lord Byron

  Soul, Insane, Delight

  George Gordon Byron, “English Bards And Scotch Reviewers: A Satire”

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• I am surrounded here by parsons and methodists, but as you will see, not infested with the mania.

  Lord Byron

  Atheism, Methodists, Positive Atheism

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• Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylæ!

  Lord Byron

  Three, Earth, Remnants

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.139, Xist Publishing

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• Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine.

  Lord Byron

  Farewell, Faults, Hated

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.101, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Knowledge is not happiness, and science
  But an exchange of ignorance for that
  Which is another kind of ignorance.

  Lord Byron

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1150, Delphi Classics

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• Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice-- The weakness and the wickedness of luxury-- The negligence--the apathy--the evils Of sensual sloth--produces ten thousand tyrants, Whose delegated cruelty surpasses The worst acts of one energetic master, However harsh and hard in his own bearing.

  Lord Byron

  Thinking, Tyrants, Luxury

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• This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.

  Lord Byron

  Real, Reality, Adoration

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.115, Xist Publishing

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• Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.

  Lord Byron

  Winning, Despair, Might

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.11, Cambridge University Press

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• Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.

  Lord Byron

  Hypocrite, Hypocrisy, Smooth

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1326, Delphi Classics

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