Quotes By Lord Byron

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

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.

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.

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

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

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.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

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

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.

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

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

Fame is the thirst of youth.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

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

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.

The busy have no time for tears.

In solitude, where we are least alone.

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.

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.