#thing

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five? ↗

— George Byron

#anything #being #console #future #i

Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons. ↗

— George Byron

#everything #hate #off #right #rob

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

#anything #friend #friends #lovers #mistress

Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations. ↗

— Lord Byron

#because #friends #generally #indeed #jealousy

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear. ↗

— Lord Byron

#gathering #greatest #grief #grieve #i

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little. ↗

— Lord Byron

#being #care #fame #know #known

Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment. ↗

— Lord Byron

#discernment #finding #great #her #merit

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#being #comes #duty #fancy #good

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#sublimest #things #truth #world

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#life #lose #man #must #nothing