Lord Byron

The only thing that consoles me for the follies of mankind is the contemplation of their virtues.

I have a great contempt for public opinion, and I always have.

A drop of ink may make a million think.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

The petrifactions of a plodding brain.

My Princess of Parallelograms" - "Her proceedings are quite rectangular, or rather we are two parallel lines prolonged to infinity side by side but never to meet.

If she had been a few years younger, what a fool she would have made of me had she thought it worth her while.

I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence – this may look like affectation – but it is my real opinion – it is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

What is hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogethery, then inarticulate, and then drunk.

Love in this part of the world is no sinecure.

Wordsworth – stupendous genius! Damned fool! These poets run about their ponds though they cannot fish.

I hate things all fiction… there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.

I wish he would explain his explanation.

All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage; The future states of both are left to faith.

Proud Wellington, with eagle beak so curled, That nose, the hook where he suspends the world!

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

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