Lord Byron
Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.Collection: Jealousy
Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.Collection: Valentines
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.Collection: Men
Friendship is Love without his wings!Collection: Friendship
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.Collection: Wedding
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.Collection: Wedding
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.Collection: Wisdom
The heart will break, but broken live on.Collection: Moving
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.Collection: Alone
The dew of compassion is a tear.Collection: Sympathy
This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.Collection: Fear
A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.Collection: Food
'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.Collection: Death
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.Collection: Poetry
I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.Collection: Politics
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.Collection: Religion
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.Collection: Famous
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.Collection: Men
Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!Collection: Space
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.Collection: Love
Fame is the thirst of youth.Collection: Famous
This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.Collection: Age
Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.Collection: Women
The best prophet of the future is the past.Collection: Future
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.Collection: Wisdom
All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.Collection: Happiness
What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.Collection: Travel
There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.Collection: Life
I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.Collection: Alone
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.Collection: Life
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.Collection: Men
We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.Collection: Trust
There is no instinct like that of the heart.Collection: Romantic
The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.Collection: Good
For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?Collection: Patriotism
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.Collection: Sad
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.Collection: Nature
America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.Collection: Freedom
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.Collection: Best
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.Collection: Life
I love not man the less, but Nature more.Collection: Nature
Adversity is the first path to truth.Collection: Truth
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.Collection: Love
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.Collection: Wisdom
Who loves, raves.Collection: Love
Absence - that common cure of love.Collection: Love
But 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.Collection: Truth
Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.Collection: God
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.Collection: Love
For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.Collection: Truth