Lord Byron
Poet
1788-01-22 – 1824-04-19
Lord Byron was an English Romantic poet and peer.
Quotes by Lord Byron
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
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Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.
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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.
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My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.
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Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.
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Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!
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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
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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.
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All farewells should be sudden, when forever.
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For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
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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.
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Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
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Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
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Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.
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'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.
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