No quotations thread without Lord Byron:


A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

In solitude, where we are least alone.

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.