Lord Byron Quotes
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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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Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.
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Fare thee well, and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well.
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Liberty - eternal spirit of the chainless mind...
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Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.
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On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet.
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Whatsoever thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought, and softly bodied forth.
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Brisk Confidence still best with woman copes: Pique her and soothe in turn-soon Passion crowns thy hopes.
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There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
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I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
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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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I love not man the less, but Nature more.
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Champagne with its foaming whirls/As white as Cleopatra's pearls.
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To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.
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By headless Charles see heartless Henry lies.
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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
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There is a tear for all who die, A mourner o'er the humblest grave.
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Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine,And all, save the spirit of man, is divine?
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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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What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great?
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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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Nothing so difficult as a beginning In poesy, unless perhaps the end.
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'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
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There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.