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Lord Byron
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“Alas! our young affections run to waste, Or water but the desert.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I see before me the gladiator lie.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“There were his young barbarians all at play; There was their Dacian mother: he, their sire, Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday!”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the world.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Scion of chiefs and monarchs, where art thou? Fond hope of many nations, art thou dead? Could not the grave forget thee, and lay low Some less majestic, less beloved head?”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister, That I might all forget the human race, And hating no one, love but only her!”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods; There is a rapture on 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 Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin,--his control Stops with the shore.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow,-- Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And I have loved thee, Ocean! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward; from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers, . . . . . And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane,--as I do here.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And what is writ is writ,-- Would it were worthier!”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Farewell! a word that must be, and hath been,-- A sound which makes us linger; yet--farewell!”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I die,--but first I have possess'd, And come what may, I _have been_ bless'd.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonized the whole,-- And oh, that eye was in itself a soul!”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He makes a solitude, and calls it--peace!”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home! These are our realms, no limit to their sway,-- Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The many still must labour for the one.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He left a corsair's name to other times, Link'd with one virtue and a thousand crimes.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Fare thee well! and if forever, Still forever fare thee well.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Sighing that Nature form'd but one such man, And broke the die, in moulding Sheridan.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O God! it is a fearful thing To see the human soul take wing In any shape, in any mood.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“So we 'll go no more a-roving So late into the night.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“His heart was one of those which most enamour us,-- Wax to receive, and marble to retain.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“That soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Sublime tobacco! which from east to west Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Brave men were living before Agamemnon.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
Also quoted by: Horace
“In virtues nothing earthly could surpass her, Save thine "incomparable oil," Macassar!”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“But, oh ye lords of ladies intellectual, Inform us truly,--have they not henpeck'd you all?”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The languages, especially the dead, The sciences, and most of all the abstruse, The arts, at least all such as could be said To be the most remote from common use.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Her stature tall,--I hate a dumpy woman.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded That all the Apostles would have done as they did.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And whispering, "I will ne'er consent,"--consented.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“'T is sweet to hear the watch-dog's honest bark Bay deep-mouth'd welcome as we draw near home; 'T is sweet to know there is an eye will mark Our coming, and look brighter when we come.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Sweet is revenge--especially to women.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And truant husband should return, and say, "My dear, I was the first who came away.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Man's love is of man's life a thing apart; 'T is woman's whole existence.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“In my hot youth, when George the Third was king.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“So for a good old-gentlemanly vice I think I must take up with avarice.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“What is the end of fame? 'T is but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“At leaving even the most unpleasant people And places, one keeps looking at the steeple.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“There 's nought, no doubt, so much the spirit calms As rum and true religion.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry Of some strong swimmer in his agony.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“All who joy would win Must share it, happiness was born a twin.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A long, long kiss,--a kiss of youth and love.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Alas, the love of women! it is known To be a lovely and a fearful thing.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“In her first passion woman loves her lover: In all the others, all she loves is love.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source