Lord Byron
- Better to sink beneath the shock
Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!
(topic: adventure)
- The lapse of ages changes all things--time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing "about, around, and underneath" man, except man himself.
(topic: change)
- On with the dance! let joy be unconfined;
No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet
To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.
(topic: dance)
- A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine & becoming viands.
(topic: food)
- Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure;
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
(topic: hatred)
- Nothing can confound
A wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
(topic: laughter)
- In solitude, where we are least alone.
(topic: solitude-loneliness)
- One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other.
(topic: soul)
- I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, and of the bitter effects of staying at home with all the narrow prejudices of an Islander, that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.
(topic: travel)
- But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
(topic: words)
- If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing...I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.
(topic: writing)
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