Lord Byron Quotes
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Above or Love, Hope, Hate or Fear, It lives all passionless and pure: An age shall fleet like earthly year; Its years in moments shall endure. Away, away, without a wing, O'er all, through all, its thought shall fly; A nameless and eternal thing, Forgetting what it was to die.
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Land of lost gods and godlike men.
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Tis said that persons living on annuities Are longer lived than others.
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It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution, - there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise than easy of digestion.
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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We of the craft are all crazy.
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Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.
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A quiet conscience makes one so serene.
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Have not all past human beings parted, And must not all the present, one day part?
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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Now what I love in women is, they won't Or can't do otherwise than lie, but do it. So well, the very truth seems falsehood to it.
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Fame is the thirst of youth.
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I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music... Speak to me!
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I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
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Ah, nut-brown partridges! Ah, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants.
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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I am no Platonist, I am nothing at all; but I would sooner be a Paulician, Manichean, Spinozist, Gentile, Pyrrhonian, Zoroastrian, than one of the seventy-two villainous sects who are tearing each other to pieces for the love of the Lord and hatred of each other.
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Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days!
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Absence - that common cure of love.
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What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.