Lord Byron Quotes on Woman (13 Quotes)


    What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.

    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.

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

    I have always laid it down as a maxim and found it justified by experience that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.

    Now what I love in women is, they won't or can't do otherwise than lie, but do it so well, the very truth seems falsehood to it


    That household virtue, most uncommon, Of constancy to a bad, ugly woman.

    Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

    I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate now and then, but every turn of the card and cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive -- besides one can game ten times longer than one can do any thing else.

    There is a tide in the affairs of women, Which, taken at the flood, leads God knows where

    Alas The love of women it is known to be a lovely and fearful thing

    There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken.

    Sweet is revenge - especially to women.

    But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.


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