Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.
George Byron
Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.
George Byron
Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.
George Byron
The best prophet of the future is the past.
George Byron
The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.
George Byron
The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
George Byron
There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?
George Byron
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
George Byron
What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
George Byron
Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.
George Byron
Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.
George Byron
Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
George Byron
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