Lord Byron Quotes
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The French courage proceeds from vanity...
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But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell.
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Poetry should only occupy the idle.
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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
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To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.
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Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean.
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I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people - being always excited.
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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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Where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized? In him alone, Can nature show as fair?
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Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.
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The power of thought,-the magic of the mind!
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Go let thy less than woman's hand Assume the distaff not the brand.
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Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
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For all we know that English people are/ Fed upon beef - I won't say much of beer/ Because 'tis liquor only, and being far/ From this my subject, has no business here;/ We know too, they are very fond of war,/ A pleasure - like all pleasures - rather dear;/ So were the Cretans - from which I infer/ That beef and battle both were owing her.
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Liberty - eternal spirit of the chainless mind...
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Oh Rome! My country! City of the soul!
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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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Let joy be unconfined.
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Good but rarely came from good advice.
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Such hath it been - shall be - beneath the sunThe many still must labour for the one!
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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
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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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That low vice, curiosity!