Lord Byron Quotes
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Tis said that persons living on annuities Are longer lived than others.
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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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I learned to love despair.
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A quiet conscience makes one so serene.
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Land of lost gods and godlike men.
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Absence - that common cure of love.
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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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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And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music... Speak to me!
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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Oh! might I kiss those eyes of fire, A million scarce would quench desire; Still would I steep my lips in bliss, And dwell an age on every kiss; Nor then my soul should sated be, Still would I kiss and cling to thee: Nought should my kiss from thine dissever, Still would we kiss and kiss for ever; E'en though the numbers did exceed The yellow harvest's countless seed; To part would be a vain endeavour: Could I desist? -ah! never-never.
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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In solitude, where we are least 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.
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So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry.
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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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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.
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Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.
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We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
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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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I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
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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.