Zitat des Tages von Lord Byron:
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.
Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.
Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.
Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!
It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
Smiles form the channels of a future tear.
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.
In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.
It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.
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.
All farewells should be sudden, when forever.
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.
Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen.
There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
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.
A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.
I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.
For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
Prolonged endurance tames the bold.