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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about celebrity, people

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about opinion, architecture, painting, poetry, man

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Quote by George Gordon Byron

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

Quote by George Gordon Byron about state

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about drinking, woman

Absence - that common cure of love.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about common sense, love

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about truth

All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about joy, happiness

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about medicine

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about force, police, people

And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about adventure, revolution

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about nature

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about life

Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about celebrity, night, life

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about existence, hope, truth, nothing, face

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

Quote by George Gordon Byron about sleep, death, man, things, life

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about reward, opinion, virtue, day, life

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about fame, youth

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about fame

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about satire