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Lord Byron Quotes

«It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution, -- there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise than easy of digestion.»
«As to 'Don Juan,' confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not good English? It may be profligate, but is it not life, is it not the thing? Could any man have written it who has not lived in the world?»
Author: Lord Byron | About: Writing | Keywords: bawdy, Don, Don Juan, Juan, profligate, the sublime
«I've stood upon Achilles' tomb, And heard Troy doubted: time will doubt of Rome»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: Achilles, doubted, Rome, tomb, Troy
«Man being reasonable must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication; Glory, the grape, love, gold - in these are sunk - The hopes of all men and of every nation»
Author: Lord Byron | About: Alcohol, Drinking | Keywords: grape, intoxication, sunk
«Let us not unman each other; part at once; all farewells should be sudden, when forever»
Author: Lord Byron | About: Farewells, Goodbye | Keywords: farewells, unman, unmans
«As soon / Seek roses in December - ice in June; / Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff; / Believe a woman or an epitaph, / Or any other thing that's false, before / You trust in critics.»
«Adieu, adieu! my native shore / Fades o'er the waters blue.»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: adieu, fades
«Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates -- but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.»
«The mountains look on Marathon - / And Marathon looks on the sea; / And musing there an hour alone, / I dreamed that Greece might yet be free.»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: Greece, look on, musing, musings
«Troy owes to Homer what whist owes to Hoyle»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: homer, Hoyle, owes, Troy, whist