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George Gordon Byron
I am so...
I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, . . . that I think there...
But words are...
But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces
That which makes...
If I don't...
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. . . I do not...
Opinions are made...
Opinions are made to be changed -- or how is truth to be got at?
Source: Letter, 9...
Tis pleasant, sure,...
Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print;
A book's a book, although there's nothing...
I really cannot...
I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up...
For in itself...
For in itself a thought,
A slumbering thought, is capable of years,
And curdles a long life into one...
I am sure...
I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.
Source: Letter, 20 Jan. 1811;...
If I don't...
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand...
In general I...
In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after...
What should I...
What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel,...
Letter writing is...
Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
Source:...
Truth is always...
Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
Source: In
To withdraw myself...
To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at...
Nothing can confound...
Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
Source: In
I only go...
I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
Source: Byron's Letters...
If I am...
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved...
This is the...
This is the patent age of new inventions
For killing bodies, and saving souls,
All propagated with the best of...
When we think...
When we think we lead we are most led.
Source: In
My great comfort...
My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all...
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