GREAT QUOTES OF GEORGE GORDON BYRON

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF GEORGE GORDON BYRON

“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.” - George Gordon Byron

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,

There is a rapture on the lonely shore,

There is society, where none intrudes,

By the deep sea, and music in its roar:

I love not man the less, but Nature more” - Lord Byron

“In secret we met

In silence I grieve,

That thy heart could forget,

Thy spirit deceive.” - George Gordon Byron

“Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.” - Lord Byron

“She walks in beauty, like the night

Of cloudless climes and starry skies;

And all that's best of dark and bright

Meet in her aspect and her eyes...” - Lord Byron

“In secret we met -

In silence I grieve,

That thy heart could forget,

Thy spirit deceive.

If I should meet thee

After long years,

How should I greet thee? -

With silence and tears” - Lord Byron

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,

There is a rapture on the lonely shore,

There is society, where none intrudes,

By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:

I love not Man the less, but Nature more,

From these our interviews, in which I steal

From all I may be, or have been before,

To mingle with the Universe, and feel

What I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal.” - Lord Byron

“There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living "for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is same. Only love.” - Lord Byron

“Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.” - George Gordon Byron

“The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain.” - Lord Byron

“All who joy would win

Must share it -- Happiness was born a twin.” - George Gordon Byron

“If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad.” - George Gordon Byron

GREAT QUOTES OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

“The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?” - Percy Bysshe Shelley

“I have drunken deep of joy,

And I will taste no other wine tonight.” - Percy Bysshe Shelley

“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” - Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.” - Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Complete Poems

“If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind

“Soul meets soul on lovers lips.” - Percy Bysshe Shelley

“A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.” - Percy Bysshe Shelley

“We look before and after,

And pine for what is not;

Our sincerest laughter

With some pain is fraught;

Our sweetest songs are those that tell

Of saddest thought.” - Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Rise like Lions after slumber

In unvanquishable number-

Shake your chains to earth like

dew

Which in sleep had fallen on you

Ye are many-they are few.” - Percy Bysshe Shelley

“The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance” - Percy Bysshe Shelley

GREAT QUOTES OF WILLIAM BLAKE

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF WILLIAM BLAKE

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand

And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand

And Eternity in an hour.” - William Blake

“A truth that's told with bad intent

Beats all the lies you can invent.” - William Blake

“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.” - William Blake

“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.” - William Blake

“If a thing loves, it is infinite.” - William Blake

“Tyger! Tyger! burning bright

In the forests of the night,

What immortal hand or eye

Could frame thy fearful symmetry?” - William Blake

“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.” - William Blake

“Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.” - William Blake

“What is now proved was once only imagined.” - William Blake

“The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.” - William Blake

“I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.” - William Blake

GREAT QUOTES OF WORDSWORTH

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF FAMOUS POETS

GREAT QUOTES OF WORDSWORTH

“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.” - William Wordsworth

“Fill your paper with the breathing's of your heart.” - William Wordsworth

“Though nothing can bring back the hour

Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;

We will grieve not, rather find

Strength in what remains behind;

In the primal sympathy

Which having been must ever be...” - William Wordsworth

“Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop

Than when we soar.” - William Wordsworth

“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.” - William Wordsworth

“Nature never did betray

The heart that loved her.” - William Wordsworth

GREAT QUOTES OF THOMAS HARDY

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF THOMAS HARDY

“Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.” - Thomas Hardy

“They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.” - Thomas Hardy

“A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.” - Thomas Hardy

“It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.” - Thomas Hardy

“Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.” - Thomas Hardy

“Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.” - Thomas Hardy

“Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?"

"Yes."

"All like ours?"

"I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted."

"Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one?"

"A blighted one.” - Thomas Hardy

“Why didn’t you tell me there was danger? Why didn’t you warn me? Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the chance of discovering in that way; and you did not help me!” - Thomas Hardy

“People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.” - Thomas Hardy

“Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.” - Thomas Hardy

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GREAT QUOTES OF JANE AUSTEN

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF JANE AUSTEN

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” - Jane Austen

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.” - Jane Austen

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.” -  Jane Austen

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.” - Jane Austen

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” - Jane Austen

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.” - Jane Austen

“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!” - Jane Austen

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” - Jane Austen

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.” - Jane Austen

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.” - Jane Austen

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GREAT QUOTES OF DOSTOEVSKY

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF DOSTOEVSKY

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The soul is healed by being with children.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.” - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.” - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.” - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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