490 ordspråk av Lord Byron

Lord Byron

Lord Byron föddes den 22 januar 1788 och dog den 19 april 1824 - engelsk diktare, dog som frivillig i det grekiska frihetskriget.
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Nor be, what man should ever be, / The friend of Beauty in distress?

Cool, and quite English, imperturbable.

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing' in 't

She / Was married, charming, chaste, and twenty-three.

Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much / and pleases me so much (when my passions are not interested in one way or the other) that I go on wondering for a week to come.

Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!

He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.

Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

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.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.

I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one. It is a title dearly enough bought by most men, to render it endurable, even when not quite clearly made out, which it never can be till the Posterity, whose decisions are merely dreams to ourselves, has sanctioned or denied it, while it can touch us no further.

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