Quotes 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.

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

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

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

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

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

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

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.

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.

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

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

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

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

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Who loves, raves.

They never fail who die in a great cause.

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

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.

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.

Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.

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