Lord Byron quotes
Born
22 January 1788 London, England.
Died
19 April 1824.
Occupation
Poet.
Lord Byron was an English nobleman, poet, peer, politician, and leading figure in the Romantic movement. He is regarded as one of the greatest British poets.
America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
– Lord Byron
Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon’s verge.
– Lord Byron
The heart will break, but broken live on.
– Lord Byron
To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.
– Lord Byron
Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
– Lord Byron
The dew of compassion is a tear.
– Lord Byron
The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
– Lord Byron
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
– Lord Byron
Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
– Lord Byron
Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
– 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
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
– Lord Byron
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
– Lord Byron
I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.
– Lord Byron
For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.
– Lord Byron
Fame is the thirst of youth.
– Lord Byron
Absence – that common cure of love.
– 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
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
What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
– Lord Byron
Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.
– Lord Byron
He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?
– Lord Byron
For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
– Lord Byron
Smiles form the channels of a future tear.
– Lord Byron
Prolonged endurance tames the bold.
– Lord Byron
Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
– Lord Byron
If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
– 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
Adversity is the first path to truth.
– Lord Byron
I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
– 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
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
We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
– Lord Byron
The Cardinal is at his wit’s end – it is true that he had not far to go.
– Lord Byron
Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!
– Lord Byron
Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.
– Lord Byron