Lord Byron Quotes

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.

Absence - that common cure of love.

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.

Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.

To have joy, one must share it.

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.

Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.

Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills.

All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99

I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.

And life 's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

I had a dream, which was not at all a dream.

All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.

Armenian is the language to speak with God.

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

There is music in all things, if men had ears.

They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.

And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music... Speak to me!

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.

Eternity forbids thee to forget.

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.

Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.

A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.