A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
- George Byron Quote

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
- George Byron Quote

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
- George Byron Quote

For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?
- George Byron Quote

Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
- George Byron Quote

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
- George Byron Quote

I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
- George Byron Quote

I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.
- George Byron Quote

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

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
- George Byron Quote

It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
- George Byron Quote

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.
- George Byron Quote

Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
- George Byron Quote

Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen.
- George Byron Quote

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
- George Byron Quote

Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.
- George Byron Quote

Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.
- George Byron Quote

The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.
- George Byron Quote

There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?
- George Byron Quote

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.
- George Byron Quote

Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.
- George Byron Quote

Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.
- George Byron Quote