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Oh! too convincing - dangerously dear - In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!


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Oh! too convincing -- dangerously dear -- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Oh! too convincing -- dangerously dear -- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!
LORD BYRON Oh! too convincing--dangerously dear-- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear! That weapon of h...
LORD BYRON GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON Oh! too convincing--dangerously dear-- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear! That weapon of h...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) There is a tear for all who die, A mourner o'er the humblest grave. - Lord Byron (George Gor...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea! Jehovah hath triumphed--his people are free. -...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) There is no instinct like that of the heart. -Lord Byron.
LORD BYRON My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker,...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Oh, dear Lord. I was in love with him. And there wasn’t a thing on earth, in heaven, or in hell th...
WENDY HIGGINS Oh! could you view the melody Of every grace, And music of her face, You'd drop a tear,...
RICHARD LOVELACE It's way too much fun. It's actually dangerously fun. And I haven't had dangerously fun in a while.
LINDA METZGER Every tear from every eye / Becomes a babe in Eternity.
WILLIAM BLAKE Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.
MIRIAM TOEWS All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin. Anon -Lord Byron.
LORD BYRON Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Oh precious Lord!
Oh precious Lord!
Thou know them all
The thought of my mind
An...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There is a snake in thy smile, my dear, And bitter poison within thy tear.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY At the sixes and sevens of our mind
lead us oh Lord in Thy might
In the moment to decide o...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.
SIR WALTER SCOTT So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) You should remember, my dear, that beauty is in the lover’s eye.
VIKRANT PARSAI What, lost a world, and bade a hero fly? The timid tear in Cleopatra's eye.
UNKNOWN The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh my dear paws! Oh my fur and whiskers!
LEWIS CARROLL For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one...
LORD BYRON They never fail who die in a great cause.
LORD BYRON Dear Lord, thank You for this microwave bounty, even though we don't deserve it. I mean... our kids ...
DAN CASTELLANETA Hard Unkindness' alter'd eye, That mocks the tear if forced to flow.
THOMAS GRAY Where there is mystery, it is generally supposed there must be evil.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honor bright
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Dear Diary,
Oh, it's all too much to explain and you wouldn't believe it anyway. I'm going to ...
L.J. SMITH A womans mistakes are different from a girls
JANET FITCH Oh Lord, forgive the misprints!
ANDREW BRADFORD Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.
BRET HARTE Oh, this is a dear diary moment....
MATTHEW PERRY She met the rest of Jack's siblings- brainy mathematician and inventor Drake; war hero Cade; irrepre...
TRACY ANNE WARREN God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name."
BJ NELSON As I lay so sick on my bed, from Christmas till March, I was always praying for poor ole master. ...
HARRIET TUBMAN Oh, dear God and baby Jesus in the manger, my eyes!” Dee shrieked. “My eyes!
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT Remember thee! remember thee!
Till Lethe quench life's burning stream
Remorse and sham...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON I am, as far as I can tell, about a month behind Lord Byron. In every town we stop at we discover in...
SUSANNA CLARKE Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) A COWARD MAN DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO TREASURE A WOMANS HEART
JANE LORENTE Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.
VIVIEN LEIGH And now, dear Lord, I cannot wait/ Because I have a luncheon date.
JOHN BETJEMAN Oh Lord, open the King of England's eyes!
WILLIAM TYNDALE Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!
APHRA BEHN My dear dear lord, The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation. That away,...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O my mind, remember the Dear Lord, and abandon the corruption of your mind.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB I wouldn't say it brought a tear to my eye, but certainly a little bit of a lump in my throat when I...
MARTIN COHEN There's a tear in his eye that refuses to fall.If it would land on me, that would say it all.
TIM MCGRAW From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics, compounded of misanthropy and voluptuous...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY I'd love to own Newstead, partly because it belonged to Lord Byron, but also to try to uncover w...
KAREN MAITLAND Fairy Song
Shed no tear! oh, shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.
Weep n...
JOHN KEATS Give me the soft sigh, whilst the soul-telling eye Is dimm'd for a time with a tear.
JOHN BYROM Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees...
JOHN KEATS Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense ...
C.S. LEWIS Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense ...
C. S. LEWIS Byron
JONNY LEE MILLER Knowledge is never too dear.
FRANCIS WALSINGHAM We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed...
JOHN H. GROBERG Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in t...
BIL KEANE Tear down skepticism and dispel your doubt; with your intuition, draw the bow of the Praise of the L...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB I said, oh Lord, what is the world coming to.
BLANCHE JONES From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousn...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child s...
BRENDA UELAND A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world...
JOSEPH AUSLANDER Let us remember our Lord and Master in contemplation, and keep a watchful eye on the Path.
GURU GOBIND SINGH Who knew that the path to a womans heart was through the soul of an honest man?
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ When I was 16, I wanted to look like Lord Byron. It's not really a haircut so much as a hair-not...
JEREMY CLARKSON Oh dear, I never realized what a terrible lot of explaining one has to do in a murder!
AGATHA CHRISTIE I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child...
BRENDA UELAND Oh dear God, all these effeminate gay men are going to embarrass us!
TROY PERRY Lord Grantham: ‘My dear fellow. We all have chapters we would rather keep unpublished.
JESSICA FELLOWES Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender
ELIZABETH GILBERT Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender.
ELIZABETH GILBERT Oh my Lord. Where did all that money go?
BOB BOLEN Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Oh Lord, give us faith... Give us faith in each other; faith in our united crusade.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Even if you are threatened with death, look at your situation right in the eye and praise the Lord
SUNDAY ADELAJA I told her that Jeff Buckley brings a tear to my eye. By coincidence Jackie was a Buckley fan had be...
GARY SUFFIR Oh, God! that bread should be so dear! And flesh and blood so cheap!
THOMAS HOOD Oh, God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!
THOMAS HOOD All things, oh priests, are on fire . . . The eye is on fire; forms are on fire; eye-consciousness i...
BUDDHA Oh Lord, I am so glad to see him back,
ROBERT STANLEY I cannot read my own words,
Lest I shed a tear,
For all the aching memories,
That I h...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Oh - You're a very bad man!"

Oh, no my dear. I'm a very good man. I'm just a very bad Wiz...
L. FRANK BAUM It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the dear decei...
GEORGE ELIOT It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear dece...
T.S. ELIOT Oh dear God, I was going down. There was no stopping it. Visions of broken necks danced in my head.
J. LYNN The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them.
BIBLE Down went the owners -- greedy men whom hope of gain allured: oh, dry the starting tear, for they we...
W. S. GILBERT Down went the owners -- greedy men whom hope of gain allured: oh, dry the starting tear, for they we...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT If Jesus comes back tomorrow, would your actions cause him to hug you or would he have a tear in his...
PETER STROPLE Too often we shape our public positions on the basis of our economic connections. That brings us dan...
GEORGE W. ROMNEY Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
JANIS JOPLIN Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.
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