British - Poet | January 22, 1788 - April 19, 1824
There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
Lord Byron
MeShortDoubtNothingEverything
Who loves, raves.
LoveWhoRavesLoves
What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
LifeAgeAloneI AmWaitLoved
I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
GreatMindBelievePleasureMay
A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
FriendFriendsYouNeverAnything
I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
MenTrueCheckFailWillingRather
For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.
LifeThoughtLongCapableLong Life
Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
LoveUnhappySometimesDeceivedThan
I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
GoodI AmActingSensualityAm
It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
ManSleepBelieveYouUselessTell
Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
LoveGoodGodSadManMind
For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?
PatriotismBornCountryPriceVote
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