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The busy have no time for tears.

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

Lord Byron

Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.

Lord Byron

Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.

Lord Byron

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

Lord Byron

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

Lord Byron

Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!

Lord Byron

It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one.

Lord Byron

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

Lord Byron

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

Lord Byron

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

Lord Byron

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

Lord Byron

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

Lord Byron

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

Lord Byron

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

Lord Byron

The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

Lord Byron

Smiles form the channels of a future tear.

Lord Byron

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Lord Byron

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Lord Byron

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.

Lord Byron

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Lord Byron

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

Lord Byron

All farewells should be sudden, when forever.

Lord Byron

There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

Lord Byron

Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen.

Lord Byron

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

Lord Byron

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

Lord Byron

Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.

Lord Byron

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

Lord Byron

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

Lord Byron

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.

Lord Byron

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Lord Byron

Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.

Lord Byron

Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.

Lord Byron

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

Lord Byron

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Lord Byron

Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

Lord Byron