Lord Byron Quotes
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There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken.
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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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In commitment, we dash the hopes of a thousand potential selves.
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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest.
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Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.
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The power of thought,-the magic of the mind!
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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.
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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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Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.
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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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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.
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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And what is writ is writ - / Would it were worthier!
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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.
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My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea.
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I have not loved the World, nor the World me; I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed To its idolatries a patient knee, Nor coined my cheek to smiles,-nor cried aloud In worship of an echo.
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But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell.
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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Where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized? In him alone, Can nature show as fair?
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Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise Thee and thy suit, though told in moving tropes: Disguise even tenderness if thou art wise.
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Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.
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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
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Oh, Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land!