More Quotes by Lord Byron
There are some feelings time cannot benumb, Nor torture shake.
For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
...And these vicissitudes come best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age, People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth, And wonder Providence is not more sage. Adversity is the first path to truth: He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Has won experience which is deem'd so weighty.
The premises are so delightfully extensive, that two people might live together without ever seeing, hearing or meeting.
A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way; - all this comes of Authorship.
Friendship is Love without his wings!
There is music in all things, if men had ears.
Think not I am what I appear.