Lord Byron Quotes
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So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry.
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Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs.
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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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We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
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I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one. It is a title dearly enough bought by most men, to render it endurable, even when not quite clearly made out, which it never can be till the Posterity, whose decisions are merely dreams to ourselves, has sanctioned or denied it, while it can touch us no further.
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Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days!
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I came to realize clearly that the mind is no other than the Mountain and the Rivers and the great wide Earth, the Sun and the Moon and the Sky”.
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Grief is fantastical, and loves the dead, And the apparel of the grave.
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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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Fills The air around with beauty.
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Critics are already made.
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I am ashes where once I was fire.
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The poetry of speech.
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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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Fill high the cup with Samian wine!
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As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
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Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.
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But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.
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I had a dream, which was not at all a dream.
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Ada! sole daughter of my house and heart.