Quotes By Lord Byron

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.

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

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

Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!

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.

Absence - that common cure of love.

They never fail who die in a great cause.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

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

Adversity is the first path to truth.

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

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