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Famous Lord Byron Quotes
“A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.”
“Despair and Genius are too oft connected”
“My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.”
“The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space.”
“He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes. (The Corsair)”
“In solitude, where we are least alone.”
“Fare thee well, and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well.”
“I am not now That which I have been.”
“Mark! Where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it-peace!”
“It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.”
“Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.”
“Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.”
“And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.”
“A quiet conscience makes one so serene.”
“When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted, To sever for years.”
“As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.”
“Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.”
“No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed.”
“Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.”
“Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.”
“Think not I am what I appear.”
“My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea.”
“Next to dressing for a rout or ball, undressing is a woe.”
“The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.”