Quotes By Lord Byron

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

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

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

The busy have no time for tears.

In solitude, where we are least alone.

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.

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.

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.