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.

Quote by George Byron

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Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as...

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as...

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console...

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console...

Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble...

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble...

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

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

I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.

I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.

Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because...

Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because...

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

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

The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power...

The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power...

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no...

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no...

For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the...

For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the...

I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an...

I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an...

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a...

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a...

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or...

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or...

Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or...

Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or...

Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen.

Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen.

It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of...

It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of...

Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?

Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?