Lord Byron

“One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other.”

“If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.”

“Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.”

“The heart will break, but broken live on.”

“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.”

“What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.”

“What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.”

“Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.”

“The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.”

“'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.”

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

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

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

“He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?”

“If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.”

“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.”

“Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.”

“I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.”

“What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.”

“There is no instinct like that of the heart.”