Lord Byron Quotes
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One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine.
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Fills The air around with beauty.
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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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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
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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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O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends their morals, never mind the pain.
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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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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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And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music... Speak to me!
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Land of lost gods and godlike men.
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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
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Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days!
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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'Twas strange that one so young should thus concern His brain about the action of the sky; If you think 'twas philosophy that this did, I can't help thinking puberty assisted.
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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We of the craft are all crazy.
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I learned to love despair.
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Despair and Genius are too oft connected.
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We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.