Lord Byron Quotes
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I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one.
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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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Retirement accords with the tone of my mind; I will not descend to a world I despise.
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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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Love rules the camp, the court, the grove - for love is Heaven, and Heaven is love.
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Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylæ!
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Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.
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To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.
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Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!
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I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, . . . that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.
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A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.
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It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of both, but now as I never swim unless I tumble into the water, I don't make love till almost obliged.
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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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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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That low vice, curiosity!
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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it much better, for study is the last pursuit of the society; the Master eats, drinks, and sleeps, the Fellows drink, dispute and pun, the employments of the undergraduates you will probably conjecture without my description.
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My slumbers--if I slumber--are not sleep, But a continuance of enduring thought, Which then I can resist not: in my heart There is a vigil, and these eyes but close To look within; and yet I live, and bear The aspect and the form of breathing men.
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Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste.
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Till taught by pain, men know not water's worth.
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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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You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
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Poetry should only occupy the idle.
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The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.