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Love Quotes by Lord Byron

76 Love quotes by Lord Byron

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Lord Byron writes about love as a strange tug‑of‑war. He says love can rush in quickly but fade when we have time, and that self‑love can creep like a snake ready to sting. He also notes that pleasure can be a stern teacher and that absence sometimes heals love.

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Absence is that cure of love...

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I learned to love despair.

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...let joy be unconfined...

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Think not I am what I appear.

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Who loves, raves.

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He who loves not his country, can love nothing

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Like music on the waters is they sweet voice to me.

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I only know we loved in vain; I only feel-farewell! farewell!

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Eat, drink and love...the rest is not worth a nickel

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I have not loved the world, nor the world me.

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

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Absence - that common cure of love.

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I love not man the less, but Nature more.

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Romances paint at full length people's wooing. But only give a bust of marriages.

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Curiosity kills itself; and love is only curiosity, as is proved by its end.

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So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry.

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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them…

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Romances paint at full length people's wooings, but only give a bust of marriages: but no one cares for matrimonial cooings

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

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“Even innocence itself has many a wile, And will not dare to trust itself with truth, And love is taught hypocrisy from…

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Of all tales 'tis the saddest--and more sad, Because it makes us smile.

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Marriage, from love, like vinegar from wine-- A sad, sour sober beverage--by time Is sharpened from its high celestial flavor Down to…

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I have always laid it down as a maxim -and found it justified by experience -that a man and a woman make…

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Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from…

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There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth…

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When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past - For years fleet away with the wings of the dove -…

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Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage…

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But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much…

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No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found…

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“ We'll Go No More A-roving So, we'll go no more a-roving So late into the night, Though the heart still be…

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There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in…

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“The kiss, dear maid ! thy lip has left Shall never part from mine, Till happier hours restore the gift Untainted back…

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“Tis long since I beheld that eye Which gave me bliss or misery; And I have striven, but in vain, Never to…

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“My Dearest Theresa, I have read this book in your garden, my love, you were absent, or else I could not have…

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You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. Never underestimate the power of…

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“When people say, 'I've told you fifty times,' They mean to scold, and very often do; When poets say, 'I've…

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You should have a softer pillow than my heart.

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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

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Love will find a way through paths were wolves fear to prey.

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I awoke one day to find myself famous.

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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.

To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

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Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.

She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her…

“We of the craft are all crazy. Some are affected by gaiety, others by melancholy, but all are more or less touched.”

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

And the commencement of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

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

Lord of himself; that heritage of woe!

Here's a sigh to those who love me,And a smile to those who hate;And, whatever sky's above me,Here's a heart for every fate.

For most men (till by losing rendered sager), Will back their own opinions by a wager

It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real…

I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since…

O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness…