Lord Byron Quotes

• Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don’t know any other stipend annexed to it.

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• A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant.

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• All farewells should be sudden, when forever.

  Lord Byron

• Cervantes smiled Spain’s chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.

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• For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?

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• Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

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• I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.

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• I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

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• I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty

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• I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.

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• If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

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• It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

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• It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one.

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• Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

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• Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

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• Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.

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• Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?

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• Romances I ne’er read like those I have seen.

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• Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

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• The best prophet of the future is the past.

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Lord Byron (136)

Birth:	22nd January, 1788
Death:	19th April, 1824
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Poet, Politician

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