I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable.
LORD BYRONI have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable.
LORD BYRONThey used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
LORD BYRONMen think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
LORD BYRONThe dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
LORD BYRONWhat is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
LORD BYRONBut words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
LORD BYRONI stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
LORD BYRONHeaven gives its favourites-early death.
LORD BYRONFriendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
LORD BYRONThere is no instinct like that of the heart.
LORD BYRONThe 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.
LORD BYRONThe best prophet of the future is the past.
LORD BYRONI deny nothing, but doubt everything.
LORD BYRONThere 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 BYRONLike the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
LORD BYRONDamn description, it is always disgusting.
LORD BYRON