George Gordon Byron: Citáty anglicky (strana 5)

“On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd;
No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet
To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet.”

“History, with all her volumes vast, hath but one page”

“Hate is by far the greatest pleasure; men love in haste, but detest in leisure.”

“This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.”

“What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear
That which disfigures it.”

“I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.”

“And those who saw, it did surprise,
Such drops could fall from human eyes.”

“To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.”

“Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.”

“We are all the fools of time and terror: Days
Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live,
Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.”

“I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me - yet I sometimes long for it.”

“He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery,
And how to scale a fortress - or a nunnery.”

“This is the age of oddities let loose.”

“Oh who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried.”

“When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.”

“A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.”

“Society is now one polish'd horde, Form'd of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.”

“I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.”

“Despair and Genius are too oft connected”