The languages, especially the dead,
The sciences, and most of all the abstruse,
The arts, at least all such as could be said
To be the most remote from common use.
-- Lord Byron (1788-1824)
-- Don Juan, Canto i, Stanza 40
The sciences, and most of all the abstruse,
The arts, at least all such as could be said
To be the most remote from common use.
-- Lord Byron (1788-1824)
-- Don Juan, Canto i, Stanza 40
Related:
- Sweet is revenge--especially to women.
-- Lord Byron (1788-1824)
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Don Juan, Canto i, Stanza... - But all have prices,
From crowns to kicks, according to their vices.
Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto v, Stanza... - The women pardon'd all except her face.
-- Lord Byron (1788-1824)
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Don Juan, Canto v, Stanza... - And after all, what is a lie? 'T is but
The truth in masquerade.
Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto xi, Stanza... - At leaving even the most unpleasant people
And places,
one keeps looking at the steeple. -- Lord Byron (1788... - In virtues nothing earthly could surpass her,
Save thine "incomparable oil," Macassar!
Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto i, Stanza... - All who joy would win
Must share it, --happiness was born a twin.
Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto ii, Stanza... - Of all tales 't is the saddest,--and more sad,
Because it makes us smile.
Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto xiii, Stanza... - That all-softening, overpowering knell,
The tocsin of the soul,
the dinner bell. -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don...
