What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
LORD BYRONAll tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Self praise is no praise at all.
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Absence – that common cure of love.
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.
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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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Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
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There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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We 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?
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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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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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
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If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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