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Famous Lord Byron Quotes
“We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.”
“Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.”
“The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.”
“He who is only just is cruel; who Upon the earth would live were all judged justly?”
“And the commencement of atonement is the sense of its necessity.”
“Fame is the thirst of youth.”
“Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.”
“There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.”
“In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.”
“A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.”
“Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.”
“Prolonged endurance tames the bold.”
“They never fail who die in a great cause.”
“Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.”
“I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.”
“Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.”
“Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.”
“'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.”
“'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.”
“He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.”
“I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.”
“Smiles form the channels of a future tear.”
“The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.”
“The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.”
“Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.”
“'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.”
“Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?”
“The English winter - ending in July to recommence in August”
“Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.”