Famous Quotes

Quotes by Lord Byron

• 'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
• A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
• Absence - that common cure of love.
• Adversity is the first path to truth.
• All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
• America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
• 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.
• Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
• But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
• Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
• For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.
• Friendship is Love without his wings!
• Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
• I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
• I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
• I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
• I have no consistency, except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
• I love not man the less, but Nature more.
• I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
• 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.
• Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
• 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.
• 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, being reasonable, must get drunk the best of life is but intoxication.
• 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?
• Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.
• Smiles form the channels of a future tear.
• Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
• Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
• The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
• The heart will break, but broken live on.
• Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.
• There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
• They never fail who die in a great cause.