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Lord Byron Quotes

«All are inclined to believe what they covet, from a lottery-ticket up to a passport to Paradise.»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: lottery, passport
«But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: airy
«With death doomed to grapple, / Beneath this cold slab, he / Who lied in the chapel / Now lies in the Abbey.»
«The negroes more philosophy displayed, - / Used to it, no doubt, as eels are to be flayed.»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: Eels, flay, flayed, flays, Negroes
«Time, the avenger! unto thee I lift / My hands, and eyes, and heart, and crave of thee a gift.»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: avenger, The Avenger
«Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not / Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: bondsman, bondsmen
«It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts - you have no idea of the pain it gives one.»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: debts, iniquitous
«The loudest wit I e'er was deafened with.»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: deafen, deafened, deafening
«She had consented to create again / That Adam, called `the happiest of men'.»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: consented
«The world is a bundle of hay, / Mankind are the asses who pull; / Each tugs it a different way, / And the greatest of all is John Bull.»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: bundle, hay, John Bull, tug, tugging, tugs