Quotes from Lord Byron

Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much -- and pleases me so much (when my passions are not interested in one way or the other) that I go on wondering for a week to come.

There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

She walks in Beauty, like the night Of cloudness climes and starry skies, And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes...

Like music on the waters is they sweet voice to me.

The memory of joy is no longer joy; the memory of pain is pain still.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world --not much remembered when the ball is over.

I have always laid it down as a maxim --and found it justified by experience --that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex --but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.

He who loves not his country, can love nothing

Without a heart I can never really know what it would be like to love someone, or ever really understand trashy novels.

I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week

In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love

The sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

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

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

'Tis melancholy, and a fearful sign Of human frailty, folly, also crime, That love and marriage rarely can combine, Although they both are born in the same clime; Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine - A sad, sour, sober beverage - by time Is s

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil

Talk six times with the same single lady and you may get the wedding dress ready