1,065 Quotes by Lord Byron

Ambiguous things that ape goats in their visage, women in their shape.

I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited; women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate now & then, but every turn of the card & cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive— besides one can game ten times longer than one can do anything else.

Fare thee well! and if for ever, still for ever, fare thee well.

Farewell! a word that must be, and hath been—A sound which makes us linger; yet—farewell!

Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark out coming, and look brighter when we come.

A little stream came tumbling from the height, And struggling into ocean as it might. Its bounding crystal frolick'd in the ray, And gush'd from cliff to crag with saltless spray.

The night hath been to me a more familiar face than that of man; and in her starry shade of dim and solitary loveliness I learned the language of another world.

A paler shadow strews its mantle over the mountains; parting day dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues with a new color as it gasps away.

For glances beget ogles, ogles sighs, / Sighs wishes, wishes words, and words a letter; / And then God knows what mischief may arise / When love links two young people in one fetter.