Quotes from Don Juan — Lord Byron
1788–1824 England
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Wives in their husband's absences grow subtler,
And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.
Don Juan (1824)
And if I laugh at any mortal thing,
'Tis that I may not weep.
Don Juan (1821)
What is the end of fame? 'tis but to fill
A certain portion of uncertain paper:
Some liken it to climbing up a hill,
Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour;
For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill,
And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper,"
To have, when the original is dust,
A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.
Don Juan (1818)
But now at thirty years my hair is gray––
(I wonder what it will be like at forty?
I thought of a peruke the other day)
My heart is not much greener; and, in short, I
Have squander'd my whole summer while 'twas May,
And feel no more the spirit to retort; I
Have spent my life, both interest and principal,
And deem not, what I deem'd my soul invincible.
Don Juan (1818)