The first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
LORD BYRONThe first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
LORD BYRONThis is the age of oddities let loose.
LORD BYRONYou gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
LORD BYRONI am not now That which I have been.
LORD BYRONI deny nothing, but doubt everything.
LORD BYRONAmerica is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
LORD BYRONI stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
LORD BYRONShe 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 BYRONTo have joy, one must share it.
LORD BYRONSocrates 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.
LORD BYRONI 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.
LORD BYRONGood work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.
LORD BYRONI slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
LORD BYRONWhat 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!
LORD BYRONLike the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
LORD BYRONAnd gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
LORD BYRON