Lord Byron Quotes
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Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.
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In commitment, we dash the hopes of a thousand potential selves.
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!
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Till taught by pain, men know not water's worth.
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The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.
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The devil was the first democrat.
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By Heaven! it is a splendid sight to see For one who hath no friend, no brother there.
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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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I live,But live to die: and, living, see no thingTo make death hateful, save an innate clinging,A loathsome and yet all invincibleInstinct of life, which I abhor, as IDespise myself, yet cannot overcome-And so I live. Would I had never lived!
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Whatsoever thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought, and softly bodied forth.
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still the master's own, Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone, Unhonour'd falls, unnoticed all his worth, Denied in heaven the soul he held on earth, While man, vain insect hopes to be forgiven, And claims himself a sole exclusive heaven.
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Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.
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Armenian is the language to speak with God.
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Retirement accords with the tone of my mind; I will not descend to a world I despise.
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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Champagne with its foaming whirls/As white as Cleopatra's pearls.
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The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole — And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!
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The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold;And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea,When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
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It is not one man nor a million, but the spirit of liberty that must be preserved. The waves which dash upon the shore are, one by one, broken, but the ocean conquers nevertheless. It overwhelms the Armada, it wears out the rock. In like manner, whatever the struggle of individuals, the great cause will gather strength.
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Ecclesiastes said that "all is vanity," Most modern preachers say the same, or show it By their examples of true Christianity: In short, all know, or very short may know it.
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Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way; - all this comes of Authorship.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer.