She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
LORD BYRONLet us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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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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Self praise is no praise at all.
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I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet all invincible instinct of life, which I abhor, as I despise myself, yet cannot overcome – and so I live. Would I had never lived!
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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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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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The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
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This is the age of oddities let loose.
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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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Eternity forbids thee to forget.
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Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
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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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