Lord Byron

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.