Quotes By George Byron

Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

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.

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?

Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen.

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

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.

Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

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

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

All farewells should be sudden, when forever.

The best prophet of the future is the past.

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.

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

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

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

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

I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.

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

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

I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.

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

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

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