Christians have burned each other quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.
~ Lord Byron
Though I love my country I do not love my countrymen.
Let us have Wine and Women Mirth and Laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after.
History is the devil's scripture.
Admire exult despise laugh weep - for here There is such matter for all feelings: - Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.
The great art of life is sensation to feel that we exist even in pain.
Society is now one polished horde Formed of two mighty tribes The Bores and the Bored.
Few things surpass old wine and they may preach Who please the more because they preach in vain - Let us have wine and women mirth and laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after.
Letter-writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
Adversity is the first path to truth.
If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
Absence - that common cure of love.
Who loves, raves.
Fame is the thirst of youth.
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
The heart will break, but broken live on.
'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
The best prophet of the future is the past.
The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
The dew of compassion is a tear.
For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?
