You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
LORD BYRONWe have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?
More Lord Byron Quotes
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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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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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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
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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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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
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Think not I am what I appear.
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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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Come what may, I have been blest.
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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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Who then will explain the explanation?
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What an antithetical mind! – tenderness, roughness – delicacy, coarseness – sentiment, sensuality – soaring and groveling, dirt and deity – all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
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The devil was the first democrat
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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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