George Gordon Byron: Citáty anglicky (strana 3)

“The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree
I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed.
I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.”

“Tis strange - but true; for Truth is always strange,
Stranger than Fiction”

“Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life,
The evening beam that smiles the clouds away,
And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!”

“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.”

“Adversity is the first path to truth.”

“Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction: if it could be told,
How much would novels gain by the exchange!
How differently the world would men behold!”

“They never fail who die
In a great cause.”

“I love not man the less, but nature more”

“A woman being never at a loss… the devil always sticks by them.”

“I live not in myself, but I become
Portion of that around me: and to me
High mountains are a feeling, but the hum
of human cities torture.”

“Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.”

“What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?”

“I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.”

“I had a dream, which was not all a dream.”

“Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?”

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

“On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd”

“To have joy, one must share it.”

“If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.”