I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.
LORD BYRONWho then will explain the explanation?
More Lord Byron Quotes
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A drop of ink may make a million think.
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I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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Hatred is the madness of the heart.
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Eat, drink and love…the rest is not worth a nickel
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I awoke one day to find myself famous.
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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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I have not loved the world, nor the world me.
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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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Come what may, I have been blest.
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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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Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull
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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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I learned to love despair.
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And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music… Speak to me!
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
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