'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in it.
~ Lord Byron - [Books and Reading]

A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.
~ Lord Byron - [Bargains]

A lady of a ''certain age,'' which means certainly aged.
~ Lord Byron - [Age and Aging]

A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made.
~ Lord Byron - [Critics and Criticism]

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
~ Lord Byron - [Friends and Friendship]

A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
~ Lord Byron - [Empire]

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.
~ Lord Byron - [Food and Eating]

A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover -- but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
~ Lord Byron - [Men and Women]

Adversity is the first path to truth.
~ Lord Byron - [Adversity]

Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!
~ Lord Byron - [Payment]

All are inclined to believe what they covet, from a lottery-ticket up to a passport to Paradise.
~ Lord Byron - [Belief]

All farewells should be sudden, when forever.
~ Lord Byron - [Farewells]

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.
~ Lord Byron - [Marriage]

All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
~ Lord Byron - [Giving]

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation -- with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
~ Lord Byron - [America]

And having wisdom with each studious year, in meditation dwelt, with learning wrought, and shaped his weapon with an edge severe, sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer.
~ Lord Byron - [History and Historians]

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.
~ Lord Byron - [Adventure]

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.
~ Lord Byron - [Lies and Lying]

Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labor in your fields and serve in your houses -- that man your navy, and recruit your army -- that have enabled you to defy the world, and can also defy you when neglect and calamity have driven them to despair. You may call the people a mob; but do not forget that a mob too often speaks the sentiments of the people.
~ Lord Byron - [Mobs]

As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
~ Lord Byron - [Ambition]