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Lord Byron Quotes

«A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.»
Author: Lord Byron | About: Celebrity | Keywords: celebrity
«When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning - how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse.»
«Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, / Not for thy faults, but mine.»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: farewell, Horace
«I die, - but first I have possessed, / And come what may, I have been blessed.»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: First I
«The tenor's voice is spoilt by affectation, And for the bass, the beast can only bellow; In fact, he had no singing education, An ignorant, noteless, timeless, tuneless fellow.»
«A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.»
Author: Lord Byron | About: Architecture, Elderly | Keywords: eighty, outlived
«'Tis melancholy, and a fearful sign Of human frailty, folly, also crime, That love and marriage rarely can combine, Although they both are born in the same clime; Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine - A sad, sour, sober beverage - by time Is s»
«Let simple Wordsworth chime his childish verse, / And brother Coleridge lull the babe at nurse.»
«Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, and daughters sometimes run off with the butler»
Author: Lord Byron | About: Infidelity | Keywords: Absences, run off, subtler
«Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!»