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Lord Byron Quotes - Page 11

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No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe.

No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe.

Truth, Soul, Secret

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.874, Delphi Classics

There is pleasure in the pathless woods.

Nature, Farewell, Woods

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

It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

Earthquakes, Imagination, Poetry

Letter to Annabella Milbanke, 29 November 1813, in L. A. Marchand (ed.) 'Byron's Letters and Journals' vol. 3 (1974)

The lapse of ages changes all things - time - language - the earth - the bounds of the sea - the stars of the sky, and everything 'about, around, and underneath' man, except man himself, who has always been and always will be, an unlucky rascal. The infinite variety of lives conduct but to death, and the infinity of wishes lead but to disappointment. All the discoveries which have yet been made have multiplied little but existence.

Stars, Disappointment, Discovery

When Newton saw an apple fall, he found In that slight startle from his contemplation- 'Tis said (for I'll not answer above ground For any sage's creed or calculation)- A mode of proving that the earth turn'd round In a most natural whirl, called 'gravitation'; And this is the sole mortal who could grapple, Since Adam, with a fall, or with an apple.

Fall, Science, Apples

George Gordon Byron, “Don Juan: Canto The Tenth”

And the commencement of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

Literature, Sin, Atonement

"Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron" (Illustrated),

By headless Charles see heartless Henry lies.

Lying, Heartless, Headless

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.468, Delphi Classics

All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most.

Sleep, Silence, Heaven

Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.76, Sheba Blake Publishing

The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole — And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!

Eye, Heart, Light

'The Bride of Abydos' (1813) canto 1, st. 6

'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give, No hollow aid; alone - man with God must strive.

Men, Alone Man, Vanity

Lord Byron (1854). “Childe Harold's pilgrimage”, p.188

Tis said that persons living on annuities Are longer lived than others.

Said, Living On, Persons

LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.52

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.

Sensual, Acting, Actors

Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe;... Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties - give me a cigar!

Giving, Smoking, Naked

When people say, "I've told you fifty times," They mean to scold, and very often do; When poets say, "I've written fifty rhymes," They make you dread that they'll recite them too; In gangs of fifty, thieves commit their crimes; At fifty love for love is rare, 't is true, but then, no doubt, it equally as true is, a good deal may be bought for fifty Louis.

Mean, Love Is, People

"Don Juan". Poem by Lord Byron, 1818-1824.

The premises are so delightfully extensive, that two people might live together without ever seeing, hearing or meeting.

Home, Two, People

The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.

People, Giving, Mind

'The Dream' (1816) st. 1

On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet

Life, Success, Dance

George Gordon Byron, “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt. Canto Iii.”

A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a fools-cap crown On a fool's head - and there is London Town.

Dirty, Eye, Sight

This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.

Wings, Quiet, Distraction

Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.75, Sheba Blake Publishing

...And these vicissitudes come best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age, People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth, And wonder Providence is not more sage. Adversity is the first path to truth: He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Has won experience which is deem'd so weighty.

Truth, War, Adversity

Lord Byron (2009). “Don Juan”, p.520, The Floating Press

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

Song, Sarcasm, Fool

'English Bards and Scotch Reviewers' (1809) l. 5

Whatsoever thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought, and softly bodied forth.

Beautiful, Ideas, Birth

"Childe Harold's pilgrimage".

They never fail who die in a great cause.

Death, Failure, Sacrifice

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1218, Delphi Classics

So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry.

Regret, Eye, Kissing

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.792, Delphi Classics

Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.

Men, Laughing, Feelings

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.292, Delphi Classics

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

Quotes: 589

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