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Famous Lord Byron Quotes
“I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.”
“Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.”
“I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.”
“If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.”
“The busy have no time for tears.”
“I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.”
“I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.”
“Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.”
“We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.”
“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.”
“There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.”
“Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.”
“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.”
“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.”
“For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?”
“Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.”
“It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts - you have no idea of the pain it gives one.”
“Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.”