Lord Byron

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

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.

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

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

I have no consistency, except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

Who loves, raves.

Absence - that common cure of love.

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

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

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.

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

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