Lord Byron Quotes
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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.
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The Christian has greatly the advantage of the unbeliever, having everything to gain and nothing to lose.
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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
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Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.
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Yet in my lineaments they traceSome features of my father's face.
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To what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as their born due, And find it, till they forfeit it themselves!
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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - and peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - thou livest forever!
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Ancient of days! august Athena! where, Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul? Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were; First in the race that led to glory's goal, They won, and pass'd away--Is this the whole?
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Curiosity kills itself; and love is only curiosity, as is proved by its end.
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Though the night was made for loving,And the day returns too soon,Yet we'll go no more a rovingBy the light of the moon.
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Scion of chiefs and monarchs, where art thou? Fond hope of many nations, art thou dead? Could not the grave forget thee, and lay low Some less majestic, less beloved head?
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Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires,And decorate the verse herself inspires:This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,-Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.
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Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
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Romances paint at full length people's wooing. But only give a bust of marriages.
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As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
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Yet smelt roast meat, beheld a huge fire shine, And cooks in motion with their clean arms bared.
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Socrates said, our only knowledge was "To know that nothing could be known;" a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present. Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only "like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth."
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I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
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Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
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What exile from himself can flee? To zones, though more and more remote, Still, still pursues, where'er I be, The blight of life--the demon Thought.
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Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity.
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I am so changeable, being everything by turns and nothing long - such a strange melange of good and evil.