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Lord Byron Quotes

Poet, Politician
Born On
1788-01-22
Died On
1824-04-19
Birth Place
Dover, United Kingdom
Death Place
Missolonghi, Greece
Birth Sign
aquarius
Father
John
Mother
Catherine Gordon
Spouse
Anne Isabella Byron, Baroness Byron
Nationality
British
Education
Trinity College, Cambridge (1805 – 1808), Harrow School (1801 – 1805), Aberdeen Grammar School (1801)
Writers, Poets

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

Lord Byron

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Lord Byron

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

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.

Lord Byron

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

Lord Byron

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

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

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

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

Lord Byron

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

Lord Byron

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Lord Byron

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Lord Byron

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Lord Byron

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

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

Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.

Lord Byron

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

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

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

Lord Byron

There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

Lord Byron

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

Lord Byron

They never fail who die in a great cause.

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

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Lord Byron

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

Lord Byron

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

Lord Byron

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.

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

The best prophet of the future is the past.

Lord Byron

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

Lord Byron

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

Lord Byron

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

Lord Byron

Absence - that common cure of love.

Lord Byron

Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.

Lord Byron

All farewells should be sudden, when forever.

Lord Byron

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

Lord Byron

The busy have no time for tears.

Lord Byron

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

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

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.

Lord Byron

Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.

Lord Byron

There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?

Lord Byron

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

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

'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.

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

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

Lord Byron

Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.

Lord Byron

If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.

Lord Byron

Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.

Lord Byron

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.

Lord Byron

Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

Lord Byron

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Lord Byron

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

Lord Byron

We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.

Lord Byron

I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.

Lord Byron

The dew of compassion is a tear.

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Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?

Lord Byron

Fame is the thirst of youth.

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

Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.

Lord Byron

Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.

Lord Byron

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

Lord Byron

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Lord Byron

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

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

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

Who loves, raves.

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.

Lord Byron

For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?

Lord Byron

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

Lord Byron

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

Lord Byron

Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!

Lord Byron

Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?

Lord Byron

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.

Lord Byron

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

Lord Byron

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

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

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

Lord Byron

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

Lord Byron

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

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It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one.

Lord Byron

Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

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Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

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Smiles form the channels of a future tear.

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

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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.

Lord Byron

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

Lord Byron

The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

Lord Byron

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.

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The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.

Lord Byron

Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.

Lord Byron

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

Lord Byron

A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant.

Lord Byron

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

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

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

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Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.

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

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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.

Lord Byron