"Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands……" — Lord Byron
"Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down."
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382 Quotes by Lord Byron
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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes,…
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If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his…
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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes…
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Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.
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Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a…
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Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward,…
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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always…
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I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.
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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not…
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It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the…
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We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are…
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It appears to me that those who rely simply on the weight of authority to prove any assertion, without searching…
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The absurdly neurotic role you and the rest of your kind have always attributed to me Erato, the Goddess Muse…
— John Fowles
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Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.
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I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is.
— Glenn Greenwald
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The role of Ronald Reagan had been deliberately diminished; the role of the Europeans, who, with the exception of Helmet…
— Margaret Thatcher
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To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred
— Tina Brown
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QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft debate…
— Jonathan Swift
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Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, and delicately balanced to provide…
— Arno Allan Penzias
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Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful.
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