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• Cervantes smil'd Spain's chivalry away.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto xiii, Stanza 11...
• All human history attests That happiness for man,--the hungry sinner!
  Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner....
• Society is now one polish'd horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto xiii, Stanza 95...
• And after all, what is a lie? 'T is but The truth in masquerade.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto xi, Stanza 37...
• The women pardon'd all except her face.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto v, Stanza 113...
• But, oh ye lords of ladies intellectual, Inform us truly,--have they not henpeck'd you all?
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto i, Stanza 22...
• There 's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto v, Stanza 5...
• All who joy would win Must share it, --happiness was born a twin.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto ii, Stanza 172...
• That all-softening, overpowering knell, The tocsin of the soul,--the dinner bell.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto v, Stanza 49...