Lord Byron Quotes

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

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

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

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

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

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.

Absence - that common cure of love.

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

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other.

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

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?

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.