Lord Byron

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.