Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
LORD BYRONA celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire – in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
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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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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
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I am not now That which I have been.
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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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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.
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Come what may, I have been blest.
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But 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.
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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