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Lord Byron Quotes - Page 13

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Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.

Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.

Winning, Despair, Might

Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.11, Cambridge University Press

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.

Men, Effort, Literature

Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.304, Simon and Schuster

Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.

Men, Bird, Parent

George Gordon Byron, “English Bards And Scotch Reviewers: A Satire”

Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy

Self, Hypocrisy, Form

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

Love, Spring, Men

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2725, Delphi Classics

Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels.

Sweet, Wine, Ale

Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed.

Feelings, Mind, Desert

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.773, Delphi Classics

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

Happiness, Wedding, Men

But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.

Love, Real, Men

Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.423, Xist Publishing

Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so.

Song, Owl, Midnight

'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 14, st. 50

Romances paint at full length people's wooing. But only give a bust of marriages.

Giving, People, Romance

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

The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space.

Stars, Space, Sun

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.510, Delphi Classics

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Love, Self, Snakes

And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.

Laughter, Laughing, May

Don Juan canto 4, st. 4 (1821)

Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never

Genius, May, Talent

A sort of hostile transaction, very necessary to keep the world going, but by no means a sinecure to the parties concerned.

Love, Party, Mean

Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.11, Gerald Duckworth & Co

That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, and fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.

Food, People, Hunger

Lord Byron (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.241, Routledge

Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste.

Disappointment, Sea, Apples

'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 3, st. 34

The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.

Heart, Power, Common Sense

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.

Doubt, Religion, Literature

'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 2, st. 34

Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How differently the world would men behold!

Men, Fiction, World

LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.303

I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me: and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum of human cities torture.

Climbing, Cities, Feelings

'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 3, st. 72

Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone, which fades so fast, But the tender bloom of heart is gone, ere youth itself be past.

Heart, Past, Gone

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.351, Delphi Classics

I depart, Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.

Travel, Eye, Grieving

Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.55, Sheba Blake Publishing

But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.

Liars, Hate, Writing

Letter to John Murray from Venice, April 2 1817, in L. A. Marchand (ed.) 'Byron's Letters and Journals' vol. 5 (1976)

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

Quotes: 589

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