Quotes By Lord Byron

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

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.

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

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

If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.

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

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

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

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.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

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

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

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

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.

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

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

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

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

The dew of compassion is a tear.

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

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

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

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

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

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.