Lord Byron Quotes, War Quotes, Beer Quotes

For all we know that English people are/ Fed upon beef - I won't say much of beer/ Because 'tis liquor only, and being far/ From this my subject, has no business here;/ We know too, they are very fond of war,/ A pleasure - like all pleasures - rather dear;/ So were the Cretans - from which I infer/ That beef and battle both were owing her

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Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

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And what is writ is writ - / Would it were worthier!

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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

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Poetry should only occupy the idle.

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I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.

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My native land, good night!

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Self praise is no praise at all.

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Mark! Where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it-peace!

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My slumbers--if I slumber--are not sleep, But a continuance of enduring thought, Which then I can resist not: in my heart There is a vigil, and these eyes but close To look within; and yet I live, and bear The aspect and the form of breathing men.

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

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Life is too short for chess.

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Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy.

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I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation -- they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.

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Religion-freedom-vengeance-what you will, A word's enough to raise mankind to kill.

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In itself a thought, a slumbering thought is capable of years; and curdles a long life into one hour.

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For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.

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Lord of himself; that heritage of woe!

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Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer.

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