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

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

Inspirational, Doubt, Atheism

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

Life, Motivational, Positive

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Lonely, Nature, Travel

'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 178

You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. Never underestimate the power of love. The way to love anything is to realize it may be lost. The heart has its reasons that reason does not know at all. Music is love in search of a word. There is pleasure in the pathless woods; there is a rapture on the lonely shore; There is society, where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar.

Marriage, Beautiful, Lonely

I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.

Literature, Found, Duty

A drop of ink may make a million think.

Thinking, May, Politician

The best prophet of the future is the past.

Past, Prophet

Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

Jealousy, Envy, World

Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.17, Sheba Blake Publishing

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

Love, Smile, Romantic

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.809, Delphi Classics

The devil was the first democrat

Evil, Devil, Firsts

I am ashes where once I was fire.

Fire, Ashes

'To the Countess of Blessington' (written 1823, published 1830)

To have joy, one must share it.

Joy, Share

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

Love, Inspirational, Life

There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

Love, Life, Dying

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.

Love, Eye, Dark

"SheWalks in Beauty" l. 1 (1815)

I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

Doubt, Paganism, Deny

Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.

Chastity, Chaste, Amorous

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

Love, Friendship, Doe

"Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington". Book by Marguerite Countess of Blessington, 1834.

Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.

Laughter, Philosophy, Medicine

Grief is fantastical, and loves the dead, And the apparel of the grave.

Grief, And Love, Apparel

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1484, Delphi Classics

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

Music, Men, Ears

Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.316, Sheba Blake Publishing

Think not I am what I appear.

Thinking, Appearance

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.796, Delphi Classics

You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?

Heart, Keys

Poetry should only occupy the idle.

Art, Poetry, Should

Bologna is celebrated for producing popes, painters, and sausage.

Sausage, Bologna, Pope

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Born: January 22, 1788 - April 19, 1824
Occupation: Baron Byron

Quotes: 589

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