1,065 Quotes by Lord Byron

That household virtue, most uncommon, / Of constancy to a bad, ugly woman.

That all-softening, overpowering knell, / The tocsin of the soul - the dinner-bell.

Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.

Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue By female lips and eyes--that is, I mean, When both the teacher and the taught are young, As was the case, at least, where I have been; They smile so when one's right; and when one's wrong They smile still more.

A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover - but will sooner or later find a tyrant.

I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet all invincible instinct of life, which I abhor, as I despise myself, yet cannot overcome — and so I live. Would I had never lived!

They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.

Let not his mode of raising cash seem strange, Although he fleeced the flags of every nation, For into a prime minister but change His title, and 'tis nothing but taxation.

Talk six times with the same single lady and you may get the wedding dress ready