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Famous Lord Byron Quotes
“Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days!”
“Ah, happy years! once more who would not be a boy?”
“Good but rarely came from good advice.”
“If ancient tales say true, nor wrong these holy men.”
“This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.”
“A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!”
“To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.”
“In hope to merit heaven by making earth a hell.”
“Heaven gives its favourites-early death.”
“The very best of vineyards is the cellar”
“My altars are the mountains and the ocean.”
“That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, and fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.”
“Champagne with its foaming whirls/As white as Cleopatra's pearls.”
“I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people - being always excited.”
“War, war is still the cry,-"war even to the knife!"”
“There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.”
“Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.”
“Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister”
“What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great?”
“I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker.”
“That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.”
“Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity.”
“A pretty woman is a welcome guest.”