“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.”
Quoted by Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington in Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington http://books.google.com/books?id=w648AAAAYAAJ&q="Friendship+may+and+often+does+grow+into+love+but+love+never+subsides+into+friendship"&pg=PA179#v=onepage (1834).
“Sublime tobacco! which from east to west
Cheers the tar's labor or the Turkman's rest.”
The Island (1823), Canto II, Stanza 19.
“There was a laughing devil in his sneer.”
Canto I, stanza 9.
The Corsair (1814)
“That which I am, I am; I did not seek
For life, nor did I make myself.”
George Gordon Byron kniha Cain
Cain (1821), Act III, sc. i.
St. 1.
So, We'll Go No More A-Roving (1817)
“And to his eye
There was but one beloved face on earth,
And that was shining on him.”
George Gordon Byron The Dream
Stanza 2.
The Dream (1816)
“Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine,
And all, save the spirit of man, is divine?”
George Gordon Byron kniha The Bride of Abydos
Canto I, stanza 1.
The Bride of Abydos (1813)
To Thomas Moore, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Letter to his publisher, John Murray (3 November 1821).
“Eat, drink, and love; the rest's not worth a fillip.”
George Gordon Byron Sardanapalus
Act I, scene 2 http://books.google.com/books?id=q4QR8v_hOigC&pg=PA249&lpg=PA249&dq=%22Eat,+drink,+and+love;+the+rest's+not+worth+a+fillip.%22&source=bl&ots=ey6M4uLNpl&sig=L0zlgXlw1OgHOZzN50sGeRHkc50&hl=en&ei=CJQ7TObKK4XbnAeE-LXlAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CC4Q6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=%22Eat%2C%20drink%2C%20and%20love%3B%20the%20rest's%20not%20worth%20a%20fillip.%22&f=false. <br class="br">Sardanapalus (1821)
“The best of prophets of the future is the past.”
Journal (28 January 1821).
“Tis pleasure, sure, to see one's name in print;
A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.”
George Gordon Byron English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
Zdroj: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809), Line 51.
“Shrine of the mighty! can it be
That this is all remains of thee?”
George Gordon Byron The Giaour
Zdroj: The Giaour (1813), Line 106.
“The blind old man of Scio's rocky isle.”
George Gordon Byron kniha The Bride of Abydos
Canto II, stanza 2.
The Bride of Abydos (1813)
Song for the Luddites http://readytogoebooks.com/LB-Luddites.htm (1816).
George Gordon Byron Parisina
Parisina, Stanza 1, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
George Gordon Byron kniha Manfred
Act II, scene ii.
Manfred (1817)
Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte http://readytogoebooks.com/LB-Nap-06.htm, st. 29 (1814).
Age of Bronze, Stanza 3, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).