Famous Lord Byron Quotations

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"Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication."
by Lord Byron
"But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of."
by Lord Byron
"I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness."
by 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."
by 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."
by Lord Byron
"Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons."
by Lord Byron
"The king-times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the peoples will conquer in the end. I shall not live to see it, but I foresee it."
by Lord Byron
"I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world --not much remembered when the ball is over."
by Lord Byron
"The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice."
by Lord Byron
"A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made."
by Lord Byron
"The busy have no time for tears."
by Lord Byron
"The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite."
by Lord Byron
"There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion."
by Lord Byron
"There is no instinct like that of the heart."
by 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."
by Lord Byron
"A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress."
by 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."
by Lord Byron
"For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour."
by Lord Byron
"Fools are my theme, let satire be my song."
by Lord Byron
"A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins."
by Lord Byron
"Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people."
by Lord Byron
"Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms."
by 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."
by Lord Byron
"I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone."
by Lord Byron
"What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence."
by 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."
by Lord Byron
"What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman."
by Lord Byron
"Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity."
by Lord Byron
"This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions."
by 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."
by Lord Byron
"Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?"
by Lord Byron
"Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil."
by 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."
by Lord Byron
"Prolonged endurance tames the bold."
by Lord Byron
"Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men."
by Lord Byron
"We have progressively improved into a less spiritual species of tenderness -- but the seal is not yet fixed though the wax is preparing for the impression."
by Lord Byron
"We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive."
by Lord Byron
"The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain."
by Lord Byron
"[Poetry] is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake."
by Lord Byron
"A lady of a ''certain age,'' which means certainly aged."
by Lord Byron
"A little still she strove, and much repented, and whispering, I will ne'er consent - consented"
by Lord Byron
"A pretty woman is a welcome guest."
by Lord Byron
"A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover - but will sooner or later find a tyrant."
by Lord Byron
"Absence - that common cure of love."
by Lord Byron
"Agree to a short armistice with truth."
by Lord Byron
"Alas! our young affections run to waste, / Or water but the desert."
by Lord Byron
"All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin."
by Lord Byron
"All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin."
by Lord Byron
"Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine."
by Lord Byron
"America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people."
by Lord Byron
"And dreams in their development have breath,
And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy;
They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts,
They take a weight from off our waking toils,
They do divide our being."
by Lord Byron
"And when we think we lead, we are most led."
by Lord Byron
"Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labor in your fields and serve in your houses -- that man your navy, and recruit your army -- that have enabled you to defy the world, and can also defy you when neglect and calamity have driven them to despair. You may call the people a mob; but do not forget that a mob too often speaks the sentiments of the people."
by 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."
by Lord Byron
"Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge."
by Lord Byron
"But Life will suit Itself to Sorrow's most detested fruit, Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste"
by Lord Byron
"But words are things; and a small drop of ink,
Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think."
by Lord Byron
"Comus all allows; / Champagne, dice, music or your neighbour's spouse."
by Lord Byron
"Cool, and quite English, imperturbable."
by Lord Byron
"Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it."
by Lord Byron
"Fame is the thirst of youth."
by Lord Byron
"Fare thee well! and if for ever, / Still for ever, fare thee well."
by Lord Byron
"Folly loves the martyrdom of fame."
by Lord Byron
"For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pause for breath,
And love itself have rest."
by Lord Byron
"For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause for breath, And love itself have rest."
by Lord Byron
"For what were all these country patriots born? / To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?"
by Lord Byron
"For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction."
by Lord Byron
"Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship."
by Lord Byron
"Goodnight"
by Lord Byron
"Hatred is the madness of the heart."
by Lord Byron
"He said / Little, but to the purpose."
by Lord Byron
"He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below."
by Lord Byron
"He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?"
by Lord Byron
"Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment."
by Lord Byron
"How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm! I thank thee, night! for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate; and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this."
by Lord Byron
"How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm I thank thee, night for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this."
by Lord Byron
"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting."
by Lord Byron
"I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual."
by Lord Byron
"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."
by Lord Byron
"I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether."
by Lord Byron
"I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure."
by Lord Byron
"I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten--happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another."
by Brenda Ueland
"I love not man the less, but Nature more."
by Lord Byron
"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor."
by Lord Byron
"If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad."
by Lord Byron
"If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company."
by Lord Byron
"If this be true, indeed, / Some Christians have a comfortable creed."
by 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."
by Lord Byron
"In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy."
by Lord Byron
"In general I do not draw well with literary men / not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication."
by Lord Byron
"In solitude, where we are least alone."
by Lord Byron
"In the desert a fountain is springing,
In the wide waste there still is a tree,
And a bird in the solitude singing,
Which speaks to my spirit of thee."
by Lord Byron
"Indigestion is - that inward fate which makes all Styx through one small liver flow"
by Lord Byron
"It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it."
by Lord Byron
"It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep."
by Lord Byron
"Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger."
by Lord Byron
"Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life."
by Lord Byron
"Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim."
by Lord Byron
"Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations."
by Lord Byron
"Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey."
by Lord Byron


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