'T is strange, but true; for truth is always strange,--
Stranger than fiction.
-- Lord Byron (1788-1824)
-- Don Juan, Canto xiv, Stanza 101
Stranger than fiction.
-- Lord Byron (1788-1824)
-- Don Juan, Canto xiv, Stanza 101
Related:
- What a strange thing is man! and what a stranger
Is woman!
Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto ix, Stanza... - A "strange coincidence," to use a phrase
By which such things are settled nowadays.
Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto vi, Stanza... - T is strange the mind, that very fiery particle,
Should let itself be snuff'd out by an article.
Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto xi, Stanza... - And after all, what is a lie? 'T is but
The truth in masquerade.
Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto xi, Stanza... - There 's nought, no doubt, so much the spirit calms
As rum and true religion.
Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto ii, Stanza... - 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... - I 've stood upon Achilles' tomb,
And heard Troy doubted:
time will doubt of Rome. -- Lord Byron (1788-1824)... - Ah, surely nothing dies but something mourns.
-- Lord Byron (1788-1824)
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Don Juan, Canto iii, Stanza... - Alas, the love of women! it is known
To be a lovely and a fearful thing.
Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto ii, Stanza...
