Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
LORD BYRONBut what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
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Eat, drink and love…the rest is not worth a nickel
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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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Think not I am what I appear.
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Hatred is the madness of the heart.
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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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A drop of ink may make a million think.
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Self praise is no praise at all.
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable.
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Who then will explain the explanation?
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I awoke one day to find myself famous.
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The first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
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The devil was the first democrat
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