Lord Byron Quotes

Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron

'Tis strange - but true;
for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
- Lord Byron

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
- Lord Byron

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
- Lord Byron

In solitude, where we are least alone.
- Lord Byron

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk;
the best of life is but intoxication.
- Lord Byron

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies,
and for saving souls.
All propagated with the best intentions.
- Lord Byron

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
- Lord Byron

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view,
that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.
- Lord Byron

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

The heart will break, but broken live on.
- Lord Byron

The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.
- Lord Byron

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes
as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.
- Lord Byron

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
- Lord Byron

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print.
A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.
- Lord Byron

Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.
- Lord Byron

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue -
is hypocrisy.
- Lord Byron

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
- Lord Byron

This man is freed from servile bands,
Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself,
though not of lands, And leaving nothing,
yet hath all.
- Lord Byron

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.
- Lord Byron

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.
- Lord Byron

Always laugh when you can.
It is cheap medicine.
- Lord Byron

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman
who has been bred to the business,
and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
- Lord Byron

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
- Lord Byron

He who is only just is cruel.
Who on earth could live were all judged justly?
- Lord Byron

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

The dew of compassion is a tear.
- Lord Byron

I have no consistency, except in politics;
and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
- Lord Byron

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist,
even in pain.
- Lord Byron

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.
- Lord Byron

A mistress never is nor can be a friend.
While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over,
anything but friends.
- Lord Byron

Adversity is the first path to truth.
- Lord Byron

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend.
The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
- Lord Byron

Who loves, raves.
- Lord Byron

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune,
and nothing upon ourselves.
- Lord Byron

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.
- Lord Byron

Smiles form the channels of a future tear.
- Lord Byron

Prolonged endurance tames the bold.
- Lord Byron

Absence - that common cure of love.
- Lord Byron

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

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms
as rum and true religion.
- Lord Byron

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life.
The evening beam that smiles the clouds away,
and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
- Lord Byron

Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
- Lord Byron

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature,
I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and
resist or endure those of others.
- Lord Byron

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest,
the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
- Lord Byron

There is no instinct like that of the heart.
- Lord Byron

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives
as much as if we had never married at all.
- Lord Byron

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

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,
And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;
When the air does laugh with our merry wit,
And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.
- Lord Byron

Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
- Lord Byron

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near;
My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
- Lord Byron

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep,
And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
- Lord Byron

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
- Lord Byron

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll.
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain.
Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
- Lord Byron

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

Yes, love indeed is light from heaven;
A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared,
by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.
- Lord Byron

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

The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.
- Lord Byron

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.
- Lord Byron

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off.
In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
- Lord Byron

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation -
with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
- Lord Byron

Those who will not reason, are bigots,
those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not,
are slaves.
- Lord Byron

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps
the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved
one blotted from life's page,
And be alone on earth, as I am now.
- Lord Byron

The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.
- Lord Byron

Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.
- Lord Byron

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.
- Lord Byron

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting,
two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
- Lord Byron

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?
- Lord Byron

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives
a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.
- Lord Byron

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love,
than in being undeceived by them.
- Lord Byron

A thousand years may scare form a state.
An hour may lay it in ruins.
- Lord Byron

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