Quotes By Lord Byron

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

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.

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.

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

They never fail who die in a great cause.

Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!

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

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.

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

Absence - that common cure of love.

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

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

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

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

Adversity is the first path to truth.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

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

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

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.

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 love not man the less, but Nature more.

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

Fame is the thirst of youth.

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

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

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