Lord Byron Quotes
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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Fame is the thirst of youth.
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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We of the craft are all crazy.
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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Grief is fantastical, and loves the dead, And the apparel of the grave.
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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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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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
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Tis said that persons living on annuities Are longer lived than others.
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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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Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.
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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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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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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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And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music... Speak to me!
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The sky is changed,-and such a change! O night And storm and darkness! ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder.
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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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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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Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days!
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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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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.