Lord Byron Quotes

Opinions are made to be changed – or how is truth to be got at?

A drop of ink may make a million think.

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one.

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

Though sages may pour out their wisdom’s treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

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.

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

The busy have no time for tears.

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.