Lord Byron Quotes (page 2)

1788–1824, British Poet
quotes
198
topics
12
Origin
What do these mean?
Topic
“Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.”
Life and Living
“Romances I never read like those I have seen.”
Fiction
“All farewells should be sudden, when forever.”
Farewells
“Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.”
Truth
“Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.”
Marriage
“I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day...”
Religion
“Sincerity may be humble, but she cannot be servile.”
Sincerity
“I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.”
Intentions
“I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.”
Giving
“The ''good old times'' -- all times when old are good.”
VerifiedThe Age of Bronze (1823) · evidenceNostalgia
“Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.”
Patriotism
“It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.”
Life and Living
“A lady of a ''certain age,'' which means certainly aged.”
Age and Aging
“To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.”
Happiness
“The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.”
Repentance
“What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.”
Men and Women
“All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.”
VerifiedDon Juan (1818-1824) · evidenceGiving
“Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.”
VerifiedLine 117; this can be compared to: "Natura il fece, e poi ruppe la stampa" (translated: "Nature made him, and then broke the mould"), Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, canto x, stanza 84; · evidenceGreatness
“Opinions are made to be changed --or how is truth to be got at?”
Opinions
“Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.”
Laughter
“And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.”
Lies and Lying
“All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.”
Marriage
“No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!”
Conscience
“Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.”
Love
“A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.”
Empire
“Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.”
Chaos
“So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.”
Greed
“The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.”
Pain