There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
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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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
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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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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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The devil was the first democrat
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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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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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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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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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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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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I 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.
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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