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Lord Byron Quotes

«Explaining metaphysics to the nation - / I wish he would explain his explanation.»
Author: Lord Byron
«I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine /and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so /and now the dross is coming.»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: dross, fierce, ore, ores, well-done
«Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.»
«And having wisdom with each studious year, in meditation dwelt, with learning wrought, and shaped his weapon with an edge severe, sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer.»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: sapping, shaped, studious
«Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: sighing
«But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: housekeeper, housekeepers
«Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way; / all this comes of Authorship.»
«We have progressively improved into a less spiritual species of tenderness -- but the seal is not yet fixed though the wax is preparing for the impression.»
«The way to be immortal (I mean not to die at all) is to have me for your heir. I recommend you to put me in your will and you will see that (as long as I live at least) you will never even catch cold.»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: catch cold, heir
«I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes -- and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: chastity, comfortless, pea, peas