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• And after all, what is a lie? 'T is but The truth in masquerade.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto xi, Stanza 37...
• What a strange thing is man! and what a stranger Is woman!
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto ix, Stanza 64...
• T is strange, but true; for truth is always strange,-- Stranger than fiction.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto xiv, Stanza 101...
• When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter," And proved it,--'t was no matter what he said.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto xi, Stanza 1...
• A "strange coincidence," to use a phrase By which such things are settled nowadays.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto vi, Stanza 78...
• Ah, surely nothing dies but something mourns.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto iii, Stanza 108...
• 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 199...
• And puts himself upon his good behaviour.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto v, Stanza 47...
• And whispering, "I will ne'er consent,"--consented.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto i, Stanza 117...