Lord Byron quotes

“My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.”

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

“I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.”

— Lord Byron

“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”

— Lord Byron

“Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at? ”

— Lord Byron

“If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company. ”

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

“Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations. ”

— Lord Byron

“Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen. ”

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

“They never fail who die in a great cause.”

— Lord Byron

“To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.”

— Lord Byron

“Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.”

— Lord Byron

“When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it. ”

— Lord Byron

“A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.”

— Lord Byron

“Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. ”

— Lord Byron

“The 'good old times' - all times when old are good. ”

— Lord Byron

“What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now. ”

— Lord Byron

“Who loves, raves. ”

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

“America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people. ”

— Lord Byron

“There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.”

— Lord Byron

“Prolonged endurance tames the bold.”

— Lord Byron

“I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.”

— Lord Byron

“For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.”

— Lord Byron

“Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge. ”

— Lord Byron

“The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.”

— Lord Byron

“Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. ”

— Lord Byron

“Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction. ”

— Lord Byron