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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about love

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about indifference, politics

know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about pleasure

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about nature, love, man

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about being

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about criminals, man, fairy tales

I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about americans

If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about companies

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about mind

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.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about fall, affair

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about hypocrisy, virtue

In solitude, where we are least alone.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about solitude

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about time

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about sleep, reason, faith, man, contentment

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about life

Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about word

Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about danger, love

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about life

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

Quote by George Gordon Byron about love, life

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

Quote by George Gordon Byron about fear, love