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Men Quotes by Lord Byron

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Lord Byron comments on how men rush into love but grow tired of it when it slows down. He describes men as needing food and other basic needs, like a hungry animal. The quotes also show men swinging between joy and sorrow, and how bargains can feel hostile.

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There is music in all things, if men had ears.

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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.

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Land of lost gods and godlike men.

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Till taught by pain, men know not water's worth.

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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.

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Man's conscience is the oracle of God.

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He had kept The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him wept.

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Perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save.

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

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He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes. (The Corsair)

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My hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden…

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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

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Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.

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'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give, No hollow aid; alone - man with…

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Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.

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For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.

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I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation - they are all better…

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Let no man grumble when his friends fall off, As they will do like leaves at the first breeze; When your affairs…

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I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too…

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We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by…

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If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself...that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, he will find out he is…

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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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Your thief looks Exactly like the rest, or rather better; 'Tis only at the bar, and in the dungeon, That wise men…

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A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they…

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I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very…

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Socrates said, our only knowledge was "To know that nothing could be known;" a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass…

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The basis of your religion is injustice. The Son of God the pure, the immaculate, the innocent, is sacrificed for the guilty.…

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What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up…

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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still the master's…

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As to Don Juan, confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is…

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It is not one man nor a million, but the spirit of liberty that must be preserved. The waves which dash upon…

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Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labor in your fields and serve in your…

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Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.

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Old man! 'Tis not difficult to die.

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Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

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If ancient tales say true, nor wrong these holy men.

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Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.

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Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.

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Many are poets, but without the name;For what is Poesy but to createFrom overfeeling Good or Ill; and aimAt an external life…

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In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to…

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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.

Your thief looks Exactly like the rest, or rather better; 'Tis only at the bar, and in the dungeon, That wise men know your…

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…