Quotes By Lord Byron

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

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

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

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

Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

The dew of compassion is a tear.

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

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

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.

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.

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

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.

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.

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.

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.

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

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.

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.

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.