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Lord Byron, born on January 22, 1788, and died on April 19, 1824, was a prominent English Romantic poet. His poetry is characterized by its strong personality and passion, and has had a profound impact on literature.

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“I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one.”

Ifs Knows Mistake Willing Genius Call Me

Author:Lord Byron

“Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave.”

Ifs Bravery Brave Grieving

Book:CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

“Farewell! if ever fondest prayer For other's weal avail'd on high, Mine will not all be lost in air, But waft thy name beyond the sky.”

Ifs Names Lost Prayer Air Sky Mines Losing Farewell

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“O Fame! if I ever took delight in thy praises, Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover The thought that I was not unworthy to love her.”

Ifs Eye Fame Praise Sake Dear Delight Phrases Unworthy Bright Eyes Dear Ones

Book:Selected Poems of Lord Byron

Source: Selected Poems of Lord Byron

“If ancient tales say true, nor wrong these holy men.”

Ifs Men Holy Ancient Tales Holy Man

Book:CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

“I was accused of every monstrous vice by public rumour and private rancour; my name, which had been a knightly or noble one, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered, and murmured, was true, I was unfit for England; if false, England was unfit for me.”

Ifs Names Felt England Vices Noble Privacy Accused Monstrous Rumours Tainted

Author:Lord Byron

“And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.”

Ifs May Laughing Laughter Mortals

Author:Lord Byron

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

Ifs Men Music Music Is All Things Ears Musical Listening To Music Playing Music New Music Inspirational Music Music And Life Sound And Music Hearing Music

Book:DON JUAN

Source: DON JUAN

“I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one. It is a title dearly enough bought by most men, to render it endurable, even when not quite clearly made out, which it never can be till the Posterity, whose decisions are merely dreams to ourselves, has sanctioned or denied it, while it can touch us no further.”

Ifs Knows Men Made Enough Dream Decision Mistake Willing Genius Titles Call Me Denied Posterity

Author:Lord Byron

“If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself...that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, he will find out he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.”

Ifs Men Wells Imagination Prove Illusion Discussion Tigers Optical Illusions

Author:Lord Byron

“Tis pleasant purchasing our fellow-creatures; And all are to be sold, if you consider Their passions, and are dext'rous; some by features Are brought up, others by a warlike leader; Some by a place--as tend their years or natures; The most by ready cash--but all have prices, From crowns to kicks, according to their vices.”

Ifs Years Passion Leader Ready Creatures Fellows Vices Features Kicks Pleasant Cash Crowns Bribe Purchasing Bribery

Author:Lord Byron

“Twas twilight, and the sunless day went down Over the waste of waters; like a veil, Which, if withdrawn, would but disclose the frown Of one whose hate is mask'd but to assail.”

Ifs Hate Water Waste Mask Twilight Veils

Author:Lord Byron

“Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife, He would have written sonnets all his life?.”

Ifs Thinking Wife Written Sonnet Laura

Author:Lord Byron

“Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise Thee and thy suit, though told in moving tropes: Disguise even tenderness if thou art wise.”

Ifs Art Eye Moving Wise Suits Thee Despise Idols Tenderness Disguise Homage Wooing Tropes

Book:CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

“'Twas strange that one so young should thus concern His brain about the action of the sky; If you think 'twas philosophy that this did, I can't help thinking puberty assisted.”

Ifs Thinking Should I Can Philosophy Helping Action Young Brain Sky Atheism Strange Concern Puberty

Author:Lord Byron

“Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How differently the world would men behold!”

Ifs Men World Fiction Novel Strange Truth Is Gains Stranger Stranger Than Fiction Strange But True

Book:DON JUAN

Source: DON JUAN

“In secret we met - In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? - With silence and tears”

Ifs Should Years Heart Long Spirit Forget Secret Silence Tears Mets Thee Grieving Deceiving Should I

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man, without his vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the memory of Botswain, a dog.”

“My slumbers--if I slumber--are not sleep, But a continuance of enduring thought, Which then I can resist not: in my heart There is a vigil, and these eyes but close To look within; and yet I live, and bear The aspect and the form of breathing men.”

Ifs Men Looks Heart I Can Eye Form Sleep Bears My Heart Aspect Endure Breathing Slumber Continuance These Eyes

Book:Manfred

Source: Manfred

“There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had ears; The earth is but the music of the spheres.”

Ifs Men Earth Music Music Is All Things Ears Musical Spheres Listening To Music Playing Music Reeds Inspirational Music Music And Life Sound And Music Hearing Music

Author:Lord Byron

“If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.”

Ifs Self Literature Doubt Atheism Fool Envy Certainty Skepticism Skeptic Approved Doubt And Certainty

Author:Lord Byron

“Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.”

Ifs Knows Life Literature Opinion Virtue Rewards Vices Superiority Vicious Vice And Virtue

Author:Lord Byron

“If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.”

Ifs Writing Mind Literature Empty Mad Journal Journal Writing

Book:The Sayings of Lord Byron

Source: The Sayings of 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.”

Ifs Love Marriage Our Lives Married Clever Love Each Other Greatest Love Great Friend Great Marriage Great Hope Wedding Marriage Bridal Shower

Author:Lord Byron

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

Ifs Want Feels Should Company If I Could Companionship

Author: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.”

“If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.”

Ifs Has Beens Fall Literature Tyranny Gentleman Tyrants Butchers Cleaver

Book:The Sayings of Lord Byron

Source: The Sayings of Lord Byron

“Fare thee well, and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well.”

Ifs Love Wells Stills Thee Goodbye Farewell Parting Goodbye My Love Farewell Love

Book:Selected Poems of Lord Byron

Source: Selected Poems of Lord Byron

“If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.”

Ifs Should Dies Teach Loneliness Solitude

Book:CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

“You have to have a passion for your work. How can we expect people to be passionate if you, as their coach, does not have a passion? Coaching has to be something that gives you passion and energy.”

People Ifs Giving Doe Passion Energy Work Hard Work Passionate Coaches Coaching

Author:Lord Byron

“If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.”

Ifs Thinking Love Feels Writing Mind Pain Pleasure Personality Empty Mad Contrary Torture Composition

Author:Lord Byron

“The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.”

Ifs Heart Facts Literature Common Power Wife My Heart My Wife Common Sense

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“There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken.”

Ifs Love Feels Sex Opinion Influence Strange Accounts

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“A good coach encourages the same type of resilience in the people they work with. They encourage them to take risks. If the risk results in failure, they help all people to learn from the mistake and then go on to try another way.”

People Ifs Way Trying Helping Results Mistake Risk Type Goes On Resilience Coaches Another Way Good Coaches

Author:Lord Byron

“I love the language, it sounds as if it should be writ on satin with syllables which breathe of the sweet South”

Ifs Should Language Sound Sweet South Breathe Syllables Satin

Book:Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose

Source: Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose

About the Author

Born: January 22, 1788
Died: April 19, 1824
Known for: Baron Byron
Quotes: 631

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