George Byron Quotes
A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant. All farewells should be sudden, when forever. But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country. Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it. For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn? Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment. I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions. I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five? I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty. I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor. If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom. It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep. It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one. Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations. Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce. Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure. Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at? Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen. Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
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