Quotes By Lord Byron

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.

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

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.