A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
LORD BYRONLike the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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Self praise is no praise at all.
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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.
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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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The lapse of ages changes all things – time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.
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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.
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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Socrates said, our only knowledge was “To know that nothing could be known;” a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present.
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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
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I awoke one day to find myself famous.
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