Lord Byron Quotes
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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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Such hath it been - shall be - beneath the sunThe many still must labour for the one!
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But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil, And find a deuced balance with the devil.
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Oh Rome! My country! City of the soul!
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Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipeWhen tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe; Like other charmers, wooing the caressMore dazzlingly when daring in full dress; Yet thy true lovers more admire by farThy naked beauties-give me a cigar!
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My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea.
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Time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.
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Let joy be unconfined.
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The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.
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And the commencement of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
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Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.
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Love rules the camp, the court, the grove - for love is Heaven, and Heaven is love.
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Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main – spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
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And life 's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.
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Good but rarely came from good advice.
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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
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Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.
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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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Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep From leaf to leaf.
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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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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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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.