Lord Byron

"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."

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

"This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions."

"The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain."

"The busy have no time for tears."

"'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it."

"A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know."

"Absence - that common cure of love."

"Adversity is the first path to truth."

"Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray."

"Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep."

"Fame is the thirst of youth."

"I love not man the less, but Nature more."

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

"If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver."

"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."

"Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication."

"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."

"Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men."

"Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure."

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

"Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone."

"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."

"There is no instinct like that of the heart."

"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."

"There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion."

"Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure."

"Who loves, raves."

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

"Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!"