Lord Byron Quotes

A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.

It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.

So many self-help ideas are like meringue - you take a big bite, and there's nothing there.

Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out the way you're given the impression that they will. And I think that's all kind of a con. But I think we've probably all been hurt.

Promising is not giving, but serves to content fools.

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow

In life, unfortunately, I've had multiple experiences where people that I thought I could depend on have switched up, or I've caught them in lies, and their true colours have shown.

The modern masters promise very little

I get irritated when I hear preachers say, "Come to Jesus and all your problems will be over." That's just simply a lie.

To learn a vocation, you also have to learn the frauds it practices and the promises it breaks.

Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.

Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.

We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us.

Accursed, blasted, heartless things [books]! Full of empty promises, full of false lures, always making you hungry, never satisfying you, never!

But the world did not match the picture in my head, and instead I was with a strange, uncombed person, overlooking a sea without water and a forest without trees.

Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations and sell them to us, cheaply made enough to fall apart.

Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give.

The worst mistake that a statesman can make is to promise victory and to see it dashed, the hopes dashed.

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

Nothing was quite like it was supposed to be.

Hope deceives more men than cunning does.

Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.

His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home.

I often used to think myself in the case of the fox-hunter, who, when he had toiled and sweated all day in the chase as if some unheard-of blessing was to crown his success, finds at last all he has got by his labor is a stinking nauseous animal. But my condition was yet worse than his; for he leaves the loathsome wretch to be torn by his hounds, whilst I was obliged to fondle mine, and meanly pretend him to be the object of my love.