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

Quote by George Byron

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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...

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...

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...

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?

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...

A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will...

A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will...

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.

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...

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

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

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...

The best prophet of the future is the past.

The best prophet of the future is the past.

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...

All farewells should be sudden, when forever.

All farewells should be sudden, when forever.

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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.