Lord Byron (1788-1824, British poet) |
Bargains |
| A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction; do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.
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Age and Aging |
| A lady of a "certain age," which means certainly aged.
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Critics and Criticism |
| A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made.
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Friends and Friendship |
| A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
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Empires |
| A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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Food and Eating |
| A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.
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Men and Women |
| A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover -- but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
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Adversity |
| Adversity is the first path to truth.
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Payments |
| Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!
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Belief |
| All are inclined to believe what they covet, from a lottery-ticket up to a passport to Paradise.
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Farewells |
| All farewells should be sudden, when forever.
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Marriage |
| All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.
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Americans and America |
| America is a model of force and freedom and moderation -- with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
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Historians and History |
| And having wisdom with each studious year, in meditation dwelt, with learning wrought, and shaped his weapon with an edge severe, sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer.
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Adventure |
| And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickened of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description.
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Lies and Lying |
| And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.
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Society |
| Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labor in your fields and serve in your houses -- that man your navy, and recruit your army -- that have enabled you to defy the world, and can also defy you when neglect and calamity have driven them to despair. You may call the people a mob; but do not forget that a mob too often speaks the sentiments of the people.
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Ambition |
| As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
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Nature |
| As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
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Poets and Poetry |
| As to "Don Juan," confess that it is the sublime of that sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not good English? It may be profligate, but is it not life? Is it not the thing? Could any man have written it who has not lived in the world? And tooled in a post-chaise? In a hackney coach? In a Gondola? Against a wall? In a court carriage? In a vis a vis? On a table? And under it?
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Life and Living |
| Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
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Men and Women |
| But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.
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Fiction |
| But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric -- and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.
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Hope |
| 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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Words |
| 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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Fidelity |
| Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.
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Critics and Criticism |
| Critics are already made.
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Death and Dying |
| Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
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Bills |
| Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills.
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Vice |
| Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life -- and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
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Fame |
| Fame is the thirst of youth.
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Fame |
| Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.
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Sarcasm |
| Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
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Thoughts and Thinking |
| For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.
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Inheritance |
| For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
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Death and Dying |
| For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.
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Friends and Friendship |
| Friendship is Love without his wings!
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Hate |
| Hatred is the madness of the heart.
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Embarrassment |
| He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.
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Compatibility |
| Her great merit is finding out mine -- there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
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Birthdays |
| Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days -- whatever there may be for the dust -- the thirty-third year of an ill-spent life, which, after a lingering disease of many months sank into a lethargy, and expired, January 22d, 1821, A.D. leaving a successor inconsolable for the very loss which occasioned its existence.
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Historians and History |
| History is the devil's scripture.
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Age and Aging |
| I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine -- and I flatter myself that I have pretty well done so -- and now the dross is coming.
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Engagement |
| I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
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Actors and Acting |
| I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
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Religion |
| I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day...
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Misers and Miseries |
| I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes -- and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.
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Travel and Tourism |
| I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, and of the bitter effects of staying at home with all the narrow prejudices of an Islander, that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.
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Intention |
| I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.
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Fame |
| I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
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