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Lord Byron
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“He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung. . . . . . Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all except their sun is set.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three To make a new Thermopylæ.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one? You have the letters Cadmus gave,-- Think ye he meant them for a slave?”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing save the waves and I May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Ah, surely nothing dies but something mourns.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'T is that I may not weep.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The precious porcelain of human clay.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Whom the gods love die young," was said of yore.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And her face so fair Stirr'd with her dream, as rose-leaves with the air.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“These two hated with a hate Found only on the stage.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Arcades ambo,"--_id est_, blackguards both.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I 've stood upon Achilles' tomb, And heard Troy doubted: time will doubt of Rome.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Oh "darkly, deeply, beautifully blue!" As some one somewhere sings about the sky.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“There 's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“But all have prices, From crowns to kicks, according to their vices.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And puts himself upon his good behaviour.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“That all-softening, overpowering knell, The tocsin of the soul,--the dinner bell.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The women pardon'd all except her face.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Heroic, stoic Cato, the sententious, Who lent his lady to his friend Hortensius.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A "strange coincidence," to use a phrase By which such things are settled nowadays.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The drying up a single tear has more Of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Thrice happy he whose name has been well spelt In the despatch: I knew a man whose loss Was printed _Grove_, although his name was Grose.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“What a strange thing is man! and what a stranger Is woman!”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And wrinkles, the damned democrats, won't flatter.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Oh for a forty-parson power!”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter," And proved it,--'t was no matter what he said.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And after all, what is a lie? 'T is but The truth in masquerade.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“'T is strange the mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuff'd out by an article.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Of all tales 't is the saddest,--and more sad, Because it makes us smile.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Cervantes smil'd Spain's chivalry away.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Society is now one polish'd horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, the _Bores_ and _Bored_.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“All human history attests That happiness for man,--the hungry sinner!-- Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“'T is strange, but true; for truth is always strange,-- Stranger than fiction.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The Devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice, An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A lovely being, scarcely formed or moulded, A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Friendship is Love without his wings.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source