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

Quote by George Byron

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Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue...

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue...

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?

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.

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

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

All farewells should be sudden, when forever.

All farewells should be sudden, when forever.

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...

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...

The best prophet of the future is the past.

The best prophet of the future is the past.

There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous...

There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous...

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...

Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

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.

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...

I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was...

I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there...

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there...