Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.

Quote by George Byron

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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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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?

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...

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...

All farewells should be sudden, when forever.

All farewells should be sudden, when forever.

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.

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...

Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.

Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.

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.

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.

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

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

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...

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...

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...