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

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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.

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...

Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.

Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.

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.

All farewells should be sudden, when forever.

All farewells should be sudden, when forever.

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...

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...

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...

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 best prophet of the future is the past.

The best prophet of the future is the past.

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...

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...