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Lord Byron Quotes - Page 23

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But beef is rare within these oxless isles; Goat's flesh there is, no doubt, and kid, and mutton; And, when a holiday upon them smiles, A joint upon their barbarous spits they put on.

But beef is rare within these oxless isles; Goat's flesh there is, no doubt, and kid, and mutton; And, when a holiday upon them smiles, A joint upon their barbarous spits they put on.

Food, Kids, Holiday

Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.71, Sheba Blake Publishing

Let not his mode of raising cash seem strange, Although he fleeced the flags of every nation, For into a prime minister but change His title, and 'tis nothing but taxation.

Titles, Flags, Taxation

LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.80

The sky is changed,-and such a change! O night And storm and darkness! ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder.

Change, Strength, Strong

Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.113, Cambridge University Press

Fill high the cup with Samian wine!

Wine, Cups

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1969, Delphi Classics

Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight.

Sleep, Dying, Going To Sleep

In hope to merit heaven by making earth a hell.

Hope, Heaven, Earth

Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.18, Cambridge University Press

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

Birthday, Soul, Age

Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.170, Routledge

I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse -- borne away with every breath!

Slave, Circumstances, Impulse

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.3287, Delphi Classics

What opposite discoveries we have seen! (Signs of true genius, and of empty pockets.) One makes new noses, one a guillotine, One breaks your bones, one sets them in their sockets; But vaccination certainly has been A kind antithesis to Congreve's rockets.

Science, Discovery, Opposites

Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.28, Sheba Blake Publishing

Send me no more reviews of any kind. I will read no more of evil or good in that line. Walter Scott has not read a review of himself for thirteen years .

Years, Evil, Lines

"Learn to love the critics. Even the stinkers" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2005.

Retirement accords with the tone of my mind; I will not descend to a world I despise.

Retirement, Mind, World

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.138, Delphi Classics

Where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized? In him alone, Can nature show as fair?

Soul, Sculpture, Form

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.296, Delphi Classics

Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue By female lips and eyes--that is, I mean, When both the teacher and the taught are young, As was the case, at least, where I have been; They smile so when one's right; and when one's wrong They smile still more.

Teacher, Teaching, School

Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.

Men, Hands, Pockets

LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.234

The Niobe of nations! there she stands.

Nations

Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.154, Cambridge University Press

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

Fall, Men, Land

Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

Literature, Way, Shelley

Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.337, Routledge

I had a dream, which was not at all a dream.

Dream, I Had A Dream

Lord Byron (2013). “Selected Poems of Lord Byron”, p.30, Lulu Press, Inc

But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell.

Quiet, Hell, Bosoms

'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 3, st. 42

To what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as their born due, And find it, till they forfeit it themselves!

Track, Guilt, Forfeit

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1373, Delphi Classics

A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts.

Heart, Gold, Vices

Lord Byron (2013). “The Vision of Judgement”, p.23, Cambridge University Press

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

Atheist, Believe, Mind

Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills.

Bills, Climax, Humans

'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 3, st. 35

Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave, Then some leap'd overboard with fearful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave.

Farewell, Sea, Sky

George Gordon Byron, “Don Juan: Canto The Second”

Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.

Writing, Solitude, Letters

Born: January 22, 1788 - April 19, 1824
Occupation: Baron Byron

Quotes: 589

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